Public Relations Managers in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$106,358
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$43,022
28.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$102,301
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
$149,380
Kept after tax
$106,358
Worth in national money
$102,301
State rank
13
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Maryland pays public relations managers a middle wage of $149,380, ranking 13 of 48 states and sitting about 1.68% above the national middle.
- Within Maryland this is well-paid work. Of 489 occupations with published figures in the state, public relations managers ranks 19 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Maryland is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $149,380 the take-home is $106,358; in national-average money that behaves like $102,301. The average comes to $166,120, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Maryland's median for public relations managers is $149,380, about 1.68% above the national figure and 13 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Maryland publishes a median for, public relations managers sits 19 of 489 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for public relations managers in Maryland, on $149,380, is $106,358; deflated by the state's price level, $102,301. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $166,120 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Public Relations Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $82,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $149,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $282,160 |
| This salary | $149,380 |
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 | $106,358 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $113,367 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$14,362 |
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 | $139,125 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$20,418 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $149,380 as a midpoint for Maryland, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $82,180 and the ninetieth is $282,160 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $106,358 take-home in Maryland comes from $149,380. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 19 of 489.
- Two cautions on $102,301, the adjusted value of that $149,380 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 19 of 489 locally.
- The Maryland median of $149,380 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $82,180 to $282,160. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $106,358, from $149,380, assumes a single Maryland filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 19 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 48 for it.
- This $102,301 adjusted figure, worked from $149,380, 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 19 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 19 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $166,120, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $82,180 and the top tenth $282,160 — 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 $102,301 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Maryland then takes its own share, leaving $106,358.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $166,120. 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 ($82,180) and the ninetieth ($282,160) 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 $102,301 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 $106,358 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.