Producers and Directors in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,247
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$18,103
22.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,911
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$79,350
Kept after tax
$61,247
Worth in national money
$58,911
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for producers and directors is strong here. Maryland's middle earner gets $79,350, putting the state 13 of 50 — about 12.18% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Producers and directors ranks 159 among 489 occupations Maryland publishes pay for.
- Maryland is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $79,350 the take-home is $61,247; in national-average money that behaves like $58,911. The average comes to $90,950, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For producers and directors, Maryland sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $79,350, ranking 13 of 50 and running about 12.18% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 159 of 489 in Maryland places producers and directors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Take-home for producers and directors in Maryland, on $79,350, is $61,247; deflated by the state's price level, $58,911. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $90,950 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Producers and Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $148,700 |
| This salary | $79,350 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Maryland | $61,247 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,653 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,621 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $74,509 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,527 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of producers and directors in Maryland earn under $79,350 and half over. The published range runs $43,740 at the tenth percentile to $148,700 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maryland's $61,247, worked from $79,350. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 159 of 489.
- Two cautions on $58,911, the adjusted value of that $79,350 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Maryland. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 159 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for producers and directors in Maryland, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $43,740 to $148,700; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Maryland take-home of $61,247, on $79,350 for work ranking 159 of 489 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 159 of 489 in the state.
- This $58,911 adjusted figure, worked from $79,350, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 159 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 159 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $90,950, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $43,740 and the top tenth $148,700 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Maryland costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $58,911 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Maryland's own levy, $61,247 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Maryland is $90,950. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($43,740) and the ninetieth ($148,700) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $58,911 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $61,247 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.