500+ Social Services & Counseling Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Government wage data puts the Baltimore SOC 21-0000 family at a $60,730 median and $64,980 mean in 2025, with the 25th percentile at $47,090 and the 75th percentile at $78,010. A broader BLS community and social service group shows $31.24 per hour locally, while recent posted salaries in the metro center on about $61k to $84k and hourly postings center on about $29 to $35 / hour. Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows mean offered salary on new Maryland openings around $72,722 in September 2026, but that is a statewide mean on new postings, not a Baltimore worker median.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 427 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $72,250 at the 25th percentile, $86,548 at the median and $101,512 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 16, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Baltimore is a balanced market for this category: metro unemployment is 3.9%, Baltimore education and health services employment is up 0.8969% year over year, and Maryland occupation-level employment for social services, counseling, and community work is up 1.4% even as statewide active postings are down 2.7%. That usually means real openings exist, but employers can be pickier and slower than in a true boom. The clearest opportunity is in hospital, behavioral-health, and care-coordination work, with LifeBridge Health Inc, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Sheppard Pratt, and University of Maryland Medical System Corporation showing up among the most active named employers in the recent sample. Baltimore also has fresh public-sector signals through the proposed Department of Neighborhood Safety and Maryland's expansion of its Benefit Navigator Corps into Baltimore City and Baltimore County.

Best positioned: Candidates with Maryland licensure or clear license-track status plus hospital case management, crisis intervention, discharge planning, and strong documentation skills have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming this is a remote-friendly generalist market: about 75% of postings are on-site, about 70% skew mid-career, and only about 5% are remote.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 533 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. MedStar Health: 31 open roles
2. Sternrehab: 27 open roles
3. Novacare: 26 open roles
4. LifeStance Health Inc.: 15 open roles
5. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation: 12 open roles
6. Fox Rehab: 11 open roles
7. Maryland AG: 11 open roles
8. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc.: 10 open roles
9. BayMark Health Services, Inc.: 9 open roles
10. FutureCare Health & Management: 9 open roles

Where the openings are

• Baltimore: 172
• Annapolis: 43
• Columbia: 34
• Towson: 26
• Bel Air: 14
• Owings Mills: 12
• Rosedale: 12
• Glen Burnie: 10

Work arrangement

on-site 408 (80%), hybrid 78 (15%), remote 25 (5%)

Where the demand is

Real demand is concentrated in health systems, not evenly spread across generic nonprofit work. In the recent Baltimore sample, about 35% of postings came from healthcare, about 30% from hospitals and health care, another about 15% from health care services & hospitals, and named leaders included LifeBridge Health Inc, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Sheppard Pratt, and University of Maryland Medical System Corporation. That lines up with the broader local economy: Baltimore's education and health services supersector employed 292.5 thousand people in August 2026 and grew 0.8969% year over year even while total metro nonfarm employment was down 0.4697%. A second opportunity cluster is public and quasi-public community support work. Baltimore's proposed Department of Neighborhood Safety would use mental-health and social-service responders plus peer and social-worker care-continuity teams, while Maryland's Benefit Navigator Corps expanded to 40 navigators across 10 jurisdictions and includes Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Those paths are especially relevant for people with recovery counseling, outreach, intake, benefits-access, or emergency-response crossover skills. The weakest strategy is a broad untargeted search across every social-services title. The market is fragmented across employers rather than dominated by one buyer, so specificity matters more than volume applying.

• Hospital and health-system social work / case management (high): This is the clearest local demand pocket, backed by healthcare-heavy posting mix, named major systems, and recurring skill requests around discharge planning, care coordination, patient advocacy, and documentation.
• Behavioral health, SUD, and crisis/community response (high): Baltimore's new alternative-response model and the Baltimore-based SUD workforce initiative both point toward stronger demand for crisis, recovery, and substance-use capabilities.
• Benefits access and public human services (moderate): The expanded navigator corps signals steady need for intake, outreach, document processing, and benefits-access work, especially for candidates without the highest clinical credentials yet.

Where to focus: If you can handle on-site work and either already have Maryland licensure or can add SUD/crisis credentials quickly, put most of your effort into hospital systems and behavioral-health/community-response roles before widening to general nonprofit searches.

Roles worth searching next

• Benefits Navigator / Eligibility Specialist: It uses many of the same intake, document-processing, outreach, workforce-connection, and benefits-access tasks highlighted in Maryland's expanded navigator corps.
• Patient Navigator / Care Coordinator: It draws on the same patient advocacy, case management, care coordination, and discharge-planning skills that appear repeatedly in local postings.
• Alternative Response / Community Responder: Baltimore's proposed Department of Neighborhood Safety explicitly points to social work or recovery-counseling expertise plus emergency-response training.
• Human Services Program Analyst / Service Design Coordinator: Emerging roles are combining social-work practice knowledge with data or service-design skills to help teams integrate automation and improve operations.

What postings ask for

• LCSW-C (premium | immediate): LCSW-C is one of the most frequently named local credentials, appearing in about 15% of postings that specify a certification requirement, and it is especially valuable in hospital and advanced practice roles. Who: Licensed social workers aiming for higher-pay, higher-autonomy roles.
• LCPC (premium | immediate): LCPC also appears in about 15% of postings that list certifications, making it one of the cleanest signals for counselor-track candidates in this market. Who: Counselor-track applicants targeting behavioral health and substance-use roles.
• LMSW / LCSW pathway (differentiator | near-term): LMSW and LCSW each show up in about 10% of local postings that specify credentials, so even being clearly license-track can improve screening odds. Who: Early- and mid-career social work applicants who are not yet at the independent-practice level.
• Case management (table_stakes | immediate): Case management appears in about 50% of local postings, making it the closest thing this market has to a universal requirement. Who: Everyone in this category, especially entry-level and career-switching applicants.
• Crisis intervention (differentiator | immediate): Crisis intervention appears in about 20% of local postings and also matches Baltimore's new alternative-response direction. Who: Behavioral-health, youth-services, ER, SUD, and community-response applicants.
• Discharge planning and care coordination (premium | immediate): Discharge planning appears in about 20% of postings and care coordination in about 15%, which is why hospital-ready resumes outperform generic counseling resumes here. Who: Mid-career applicants targeting hospitals, rehab, or post-acute transitions.

Questions about this market

What do Social Services, Counseling & Community roles pay in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Government wage data puts the Baltimore SOC 21-0000 family at a $60,730 median and $64,980 mean in 2025, with the 25th percentile at $47,090 and the 75th percentile at $78,010. A broader BLS community and social service group shows $31.24 per hour locally, while recent posted salaries in the metro center on about $61k to $84k and hourly postings center on about $29 to $35 / hour. Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows mean offered salary on new Maryland openings around $72,722 in September 2026, but that is a statewide mean on new postings, not a Baltimore worker median. This is a solid middle-income market, not a breakout high-pay niche. Category pay sits below Baltimore's all-occupations mean wage of $36.72 per hour, so the market works best for candidates who can pair mission-driven work with stronger employers, benefits, or a specialty skill set.

Where is demand for Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD concentrated?

Real demand is concentrated in health systems, not evenly spread across generic nonprofit work. In the recent Baltimore sample, about 35% of postings came from healthcare, about 30% from hospitals and health care, another about 15% from health care services & hospitals, and named leaders included LifeBridge Health Inc, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Sheppard Pratt, and University of Maryland Medical System Corporation. That lines up with the broader local economy: Baltimore's education and health services supersector employed 292.5 thousand people in August 2026 and grew 0.8969% year over year even while total metro nonfarm employment was down 0.4697%. A second opportunity cluster is public and quasi-public community support work. Baltimore's proposed Department of Neighborhood Safety would use mental-health and social-service responders plus peer and social-worker care-continuity teams, while Maryland's Benefit Navigator Corps expanded to 40 navigators across 10 jurisdictions and includes Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Those paths are especially relevant for people with recovery counseling, outreach, intake, benefits-access, or emergency-response crossover skills. The weakest strategy is a broad untargeted search across every social-services title. The market is fragmented across employers rather than dominated by one buyer, so specificity matters more than volume applying.

Which employers are hiring the most Social Services, Counseling & Community talent in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD?

Recent postings show the most activity from LifeBridge Health Inc (15 postings), Johns Hopkins Medicine (10 postings), Sheppard Pratt (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 20% hybrid, with 75% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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