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Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers · SOC 51-8093

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers Salary in the Baltimore Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area

Figures describe the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Baltimore city limits.

Median annual wage$86,240
Median hourly wage$41.46

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earned a median of $86,240 per year ($41.46 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $74,090 at the 10th percentile to $103,560 at the 90th. BLS estimates 40 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers in the Baltimore metro area earn more than $86,240 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $78,940 and $101,800.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$74,090$78,940$86,240$101,800$103,560
Hourly$35.62$37.95$41.46$48.94$49.79

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Baltimore metro areathis metro area
    $86,240
  • Marylandstate (MD)
    $78,580
  • United Statesnational
    $96,710

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +10% vs Maryland overall and −11% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$57,080$77,273$97,467$117,660Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $57,080Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $66,350Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $67,940Farmington, NM — $70,080Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $70,220Jacksonville, FL — $72,050Pittsburgh, PA — $72,190San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $72,930Lubbock, TX — $77,240Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $78,350Corpus Christi, TX — $78,630Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $78,670Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $79,260Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $79,840Midland, TX — $80,540Wheeling, WV-OH — $81,090Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $82,920Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $84,100Oklahoma City, OK — $84,750Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $85,220Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $86,240Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $86,860Anchorage, AK — $92,930Columbus, OH — $93,600Greeley, CO — $93,750Urban Honolulu, HI — $94,900Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $96,730Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $97,210Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $97,530Kansas City, MO-KS — $98,770Casper, WY — $99,500Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $100,660Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $101,600Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $101,910Vallejo, CA — $103,040Billings, MT — $103,110Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $103,250New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $104,540Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $105,580Bellingham, WA — $105,640Ogden, UT — $105,980Tulsa, OK — $107,170Wichita, KS — $107,260New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $107,490Toledo, OH — $107,520Baton Rouge, LA — $108,420Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $109,390Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $111,370San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $117,660

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Baltimore metro area has the 29th-highest published median for this occupation among the 49 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$43,970First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$77,970Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$42,320Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$60,750Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers$33,740Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$61,920

Highest-paying metro areas for petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugerss · Highest-paying occupations in Baltimore Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.