Radiologist Salary in Maryland 2026,
$581,510 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Maryland figure is $581,510 a year, or $279.57 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 38.2% above the national median of $420,860. But the ladder should be read carefully: the 75th percentile is published at $581,560, within fifty dollars of the median, which indicates a thin sample. The band runs $99,470 at the 10th percentile to $626,170 at the 90th, and no state employment count was published for this cell at all.

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson publishes $581,510, identical to the statewide figure, and no estimate was released for Hagerstown-Martinsburg — so the metro table contains no information beyond the state row. Maryland's Washington-area counties are reported within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan area and do not appear here.

Partly real and partly sampling. Maryland has a dense concentration of academic and tertiary imaging in Baltimore, and radiology nationally has been in a supply-constrained position as imaging volume outpaces the number of radiologists — both of which support high compensation. But the absence of a published employment count and a 75th percentile indistinguishable from the median both point to a thin estimate, so the 38.2% premium should be treated as directionally meaningful rather than precise.

Generally yes. Reading studies for a Maryland facility is treated as practising medicine where the patient is, so a Maryland licence from the Board of Physicians is required regardless of where the radiologist physically sits. That makes licensure a practical constraint on remote work rather than an administrative formality, and it is why interstate licensure arrangements matter disproportionately in this specialty. A radiologist covering multiple states holds multiple licences.

It should be used with care. Wage estimates were published but employment was not, the 75th percentile is effectively identical to the median, and the only metro row duplicates the state figure. None of that makes the estimate wrong — the direction is corroborated by peer states such as South Dakota $586,010 and Maine $555,750, which are also high — but it does mean the precise percentile placements carry less weight than on a page covering thousands of workers. The median is a reasonable anchor; the distribution around it is not firm.

That the underlying sample contains too few distinct wage observations to separate adjacent percentiles. When BLS reports a 75th percentile of $581,560 against a median of $581,510, those figures are not describing two different points in a distribution — they are describing the same cluster of observations. Combined with the absence of a published employment count, the honest reading is that this page can support a statement about the level of Maryland radiology compensation but not about its spread. Presenting the ladder as a precise distribution would imply confidence the data does not carry.

Beyond the sample issues: this is a wage-and-salary measure applied to a specialty with substantial private group partnership, productivity-based compensation tied to reading volume, and teleradiology contracting income — none of which a wage survey captures well. The $99,470 10th percentile is residents rather than practising radiologists. And the remote reading market means a radiologist's geographic location and their employer's location increasingly differ, which makes state-level wage attribution more approximate in this specialty than in most.

Reading volume and subspecialty, more than location. Interventional radiology, neuroradiology and breast imaging carry distinct economics, and productivity-based compensation ties income directly to studies read. Then practice structure: private group partnership, hospital employment and academic appointment differ substantially in both income and control over worklist. Then teleradiology arrangements, which allow a radiologist to add volume beyond a single institution's studies. And then call and after-hours coverage, which in imaging is a continuous requirement and separately compensated.