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Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other pay in Maryland and Nebraska
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other is $37,500 per year in Maryland. It is $46,170 per year in Nebraska. Maryland is 18.8% below Nebraska on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 35-9099 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 3,540 wage and salary jobs in Maryland and Not published in Nebraska. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings