Do welders make more in Baltimore or Lexington Park?

Baltimore pays more: the median is $61,920 in Baltimore and $60,840 in Lexington Park, a 2% difference.

Welder salary in Baltimore, MD

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, MD area earn a median of $61,920 a year, or $29.77 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $95,280 a year. That's 3% more than the Maryland median of $60,310.

Median yearly pay$61,920

Bottom 10% under$43,300Top 10% over$95,280

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $20.82/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,290
After cost of living: $59,260
Median hourly pay: $29.77/hr
vs U.S. median: +15%
vs Maryland median: +3%
Mean (average) pay: $66,190 a year · $31.82 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 12580, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD). Excludes self-employed welders. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What welders in Baltimore, MD earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$20.82	$43,300
25th percentile	$23.16	$48,180
Median (50th)	$29.77	$61,920
75th percentile	$38.49	$80,060
90th percentile	$45.81	$95,280

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Baltimore, MD compares

Baltimore has the highest welder median of the 6 Maryland metro areas with published pay.
Welders are less concentrated in the Baltimore area than nationally: 0.9 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.35 times the U.S. share.

Other Maryland metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Baltimore or Lexington Park?: Baltimore pays more: the median is $61,920 in Baltimore and $60,840 in Lexington Park, a 2% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 51-4121 (Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers), area code 12580 (Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed welders and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (104.5, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures