Maryland government's payroll outpaces inflation

Over the last decade, the Maryland government's payroll has outpaced inflation. After adjusting for the dollar's decreased buying power, total gross pay in 2024 rose 13% over 2022 and 30% over 2014. (The years mark the first time Democratic Gov. Wes Moore controlled budget making for an entire calendar year and the last times his predecessors, Republican Larry Hogan and Democrat Martin O'Malley, did.) Below are figures for key organizations.

2024 figures are unadjusted. 2022 and 2014 figures reflect 2024 dollars based on the first non-seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index value reported each year for all urban consumers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson area.

*In 2017, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene became the Maryland Department of Health and the Department of Human Resources became the Department of Human Services.
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