Do welders make more in Salisbury or Baltimore?

Baltimore pays more: the median is $58,480 in Salisbury and $61,920 in Baltimore, a 6% difference.

Welder salary in Salisbury, MD

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Salisbury, MD area earn a median of $58,480 a year, or $28.12 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $89,190. Statewide, welders earn a median of $60,310; Salisbury is 3% below it.

Median yearly pay$58,480

Bottom 10% under$34,880Top 10% over$89,190

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $16.77/hr
Jobs in this area: 60
After cost of living: $61,160
Median hourly pay: $28.12/hr
vs U.S. median: +9%
vs Maryland median: −3%
Mean (average) pay: $61,690 a year · $29.66 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 41540, Salisbury, 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 Salisbury, 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	$16.77	$34,880
25th percentile	$21.52	$44,760
Median (50th)	$28.12	$58,480
75th percentile	$36.04	$74,960
90th percentile	$42.88	$89,190

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

How Salisbury, MD compares

Salisbury ranks 4th of 6 Maryland metro areas for welder pay.
Welders are less concentrated in the Salisbury area than nationally: 1.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.44 times the U.S. share.

Other Maryland metro areas

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Questions

Do welders make more in Salisbury or Baltimore?: Baltimore pays more: the median is $58,480 in Salisbury and $61,920 in Baltimore, a 6% 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 41540 (Salisbury, 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 (95.6, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures