Maryland · BLS May 2025

How much does a marketing manager make in Maryland?

A marketing manager in Maryland earns a median of $154,160 a year ($74.11 an hour), about $9,111 a month after federal, state and FICA tax. Figure from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey. The survey counted 6,510 of these jobs in Maryland in May 2025.

Median pay · Maryland

$154,160A year, or $74 an hour.
Take-home a month$9,111After federal, state and FICA tax at 29.1%
Worth at national prices$146,876Prices here sit at 105 against 100
Against the nation7.6% belowNational median $166,790
What marketing managers earn in Maryland, May 2025
PercentileAnnualHourly
10th percentile1 in 10 earn less$82,830$40
25th percentile$107,010$51
MedianHalf earn more, half less$154,160$74
75th percentile$200,080$96
90th percentile1 in 10 earn more$256,260$123
MeanAll pay divided by all jobs$160,240$77

Wage survey · BLS May 2025

How we got this
  1. Median wage in MarylandBLS OEWS May 2025. Half of the people in this job were paid more than this, half less.$154,160
  2. Median hourly wagePublished separately by BLS, not divided out of the annual figure.$74.11
  3. Take-home after federal, state and FICA tax$9,111 a month at an effective rate of 29.1%.$109,330 a year
  4. Worth at national average pricesPrices in Maryland sit at 105 against a national 100 (BEA, 2024).$146,876
  5. Against the national medianThe national median is $166,790.7.6% below
  6. Jobs countedA concentration of 0.93 against the nation's 1.00.6,510
What we assumed
  • Wages are BLS OEWS survey estimates for May 2025, not job postings or offers.
  • OEWS surveys wage and salary workers. The self-employed and business owners are outside it.
  • Take-home assumes one 2026 filer, filing single, taking the standard deduction, with no dependents, pre-tax retirement contributions or local income tax.
  • Regional price parities compare price levels between places in one year. They are not inflation, and they do not adjust for what a household actually buys.
Technical details

Method occupation-wage-v1Data bls-oews-2025-05-v1, us-tax-2026-v1, bea-rpp-2024-v1, census-acs5-2024-v1

What lands in the bank

Tax year 2026 · Interactive

Estimated on the median salary of $154,160 in Maryland, for a single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026. Explore other wage levels and filing statuses below.

$154,160
$80,000$260,000
Filing status:
Gross salary breakdown$154,160
Net 71%
Fed 17%
MD 5%
FICA 8%
Annual take-home$109,330After all taxes
Monthly deposit$9,111Estimated per month
Biweekly paycheck$4,205Every 2 weeks (26/yr)
Effective tax rate29.1%Total tax burden
Federal income tax$25,732 / yr
Maryland state income tax$7,305 / yr
FICA (Social Security & Medicare)$11,793 / yr

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What $154,160 is worth in Maryland

Prices in Maryland sit at 105 against a national average of 100, so $154,160 earned here buys what $146,876 buys at national average prices.

  • Rents. 121.1 against 100, the component that moves most between states.
  • Against local households. The median household in Maryland takes in $103,678, so this occupation's median is 1.49 times that, on one income.
  • How common the job is here. 7% less concentrated in Maryland than in the country as a whole.

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Reading the numbers

What stands out for marketing managers in Maryland

BLS does not publish exact figures above $239,200 a year ($115.00 an hour). At least one percentile in Maryland reaches that cap, so the top of the range is higher than the table can show.

Rents in Maryland index at 121.1 (U.S. = 100) while prices overall index at 105, a gap of +16.1 pts. For a renter, housing moves the local cost of living more than anything else.

One median paycheck here is 1.5 times the median household income in Maryland ($103,678), a figure that counts every earner in the home.

The gap between the ends is wide: the 90th percentile ($256,260) is 3.1 times the 10th ($82,830). The survey does not say who sits where in that range. It records no experience, shift or employer.

Common questions

Marketing Manager pay in Maryland, answered

How much does a marketing manager make in Maryland?

The median wage for marketing managers in Maryland is $154,160 a year, or $74.11 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

What is the average marketing manager salary in Maryland?

BLS’s mean (average) wage for marketing managers in Maryland is $160,240 a year. The median is $154,160.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

What is the hourly pay for a marketing manager in Maryland?

The median hourly wage is $74.11. At a full-time year that lines up with about $154,160 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

What is the starting salary for a marketing manager in Maryland?

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Maryland, the lowest-paid 10% of marketing managers earn under $82,830 a year and a quarter earn under $107,010 ($39.82 and $51.45 an hour).

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

What is the salary range for a marketing manager in Maryland?

The overall salary range for marketing managers in Maryland spans from $82,830 for the bottom 10% to $256,260 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $107,010 and $200,080 a year, with the overall median at $154,160.

What is the take-home pay for a marketing manager in Maryland?

On the median wage of $154,160, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $109,330 a year, or roughly $9,111 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 29.1%.

Maryland takes $7,305 of it in state income tax.

How much does a marketing manager make a month in Maryland?

On the median annual salary of $154,160, estimated take-home pay is roughly $9,111 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $4,205 net.

Do marketing managers earn more in Maryland than in the rest of the country?

No. The median in Maryland is 7.6% below the national median of $166,790.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Maryland sit at 105 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

Is $154,160 a good salary in Maryland?

It is 1.49 times the median household income of $103,678. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Maryland run at 105 against a national average of 100, with rents at 121.1, so $154,160 here buys about what $146,876 buys at national average prices.

What do the highest-paid marketing managers earn in Maryland?

The top tenth earn $256,260 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $82,830.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Maryland someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

How many marketing managers are there in Maryland?

The survey counted 6,510 of these jobs in Maryland for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 7% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.

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