In 2024, Baltimore County’s government paid 9,129 employees $680,133,061, up 7% from the previous year, when it paid about 170 fewer workers. The $21.07 million paid in overtime last year marked an 8% increase over 2023. Of the 10 employees with the highest gross pay in 2024, all but two were police department leaders or supervisors. Explore the data yourself in the table below.
Police Chief Robert McCullough was highest-paid Baltimore County employee in 2024
About the data
The table below shows data for 9,129 employees across 42 departments that was provided by Baltimore County’s Office of Human Resources in response to The Baltimore Sun’s public information request for records of every worker paid by the county government in 2024.
The Baltimore Sun anonymized as “Payee” individuals who were paid less than the median gross earnings of $73,296 on the basis that higher-paid people are more newsworthy. The Sun also rounded values to nearest dollar.
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