MARYLAND (WBFF) — Maryland’s highest-paid transportation officials saw pay bumps in 2025, as the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild project rose from roughly $1.8 billion to more than $5.2 billion, according to data obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
Top administrators earned more than $400,000. High pay amid rising project pressure raises accountability concerns, though economists noted that such compensation is needed to manage complex, high-stakes infrastructure, and top Maryland Transportation Authority salaries have remained largely unchanged.
Officials overseeing assets such as the Port of Baltimore, the Key Bridge and the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are managing “globally relevant institutions,” said Anirban Basu, an economist and CEO of Sage Policy Group, noting that comparable private-sector executives often earn more.
“What you want to make sure is that the compensation is adequate to attract the best and the brightest for these positions because Maryland’s economy depends heavily upon [these institutions],” he told The Baltimore Sun. “In some sense it is really not that much money.”
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