Purchasing Managers in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$113,924
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$47,546
29.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$109,579
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
$161,470
Kept after tax
$113,924
Worth in national money
$109,579
State rank
9
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maryland is one of the better-paying states for purchasing managers. The middle earner takes $161,470, which ranks 9 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 9.04% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 489 occupations Maryland reports, purchasing managers comes in at 12 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Maryland is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $161,470 the take-home is $113,924; in national-average money that behaves like $109,579. The average lands at $157,990, below the middle of the range.
- Maryland ranks 9 of 50 states publishing a median for purchasing managers, at $161,470 — about 9.04% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Purchasing managers ranks 12 of 489 occupations by median in Maryland, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for purchasing managers in Maryland, on $161,470, is $113,924; deflated by the state's price level, $109,579. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $157,990 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Purchasing Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $102,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $161,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $199,950 |
| This salary | $161,470 |
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 | $113,924 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $121,631 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$15,587 |
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 | $150,195 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$22,161 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Maryland earn less than $161,470. The published range is $102,900 up to $199,950, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $113,924 take-home in Maryland comes from $161,470. 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 12 of 489.
- Two cautions on $109,579, the adjusted value of that $161,470 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 12 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for purchasing managers in Maryland the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $102,900 to $199,950. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $113,924, from $161,470, 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 12 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 9 of 50 for it.
- This $109,579 adjusted figure, worked from $161,470, 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 12 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 12 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $102,900 at the tenth percentile, $199,950 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $109,579 of national purchasing power.
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, $113,924 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($102,900 to $199,950) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Maryland rather than a national figure.
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 $109,579 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 $113,924 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.