Aircraft Service Attendants in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,954
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$7,446
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,969
Maine costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maine — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$41,400
Kept after tax
$33,954
Worth in national money
$34,969
State rank
24
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays aircraft service attendants around $41,400 at the midpoint, 24 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Measured against other jobs in Maine, this one sits low: 431 of 484 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $41,400, tax leaves $33,954, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $34,969 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $43,460, since top earners drag the number up.
- For aircraft service attendants the Maine median is $41,400, ranking 24 of 46 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Aircraft service attendants occupies position 431 of 484 in Maine's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for aircraft service attendants — median $41,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $33,954 retained, $34,969 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $43,460 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Aircraft Service Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,380 |
| This salary | $41,400 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Maine | $33,954 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,445 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,506 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $39,545 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,821 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $41,400 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,440 and the ninetieth is $58,380 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maine's $33,954, worked from $41,400. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 431 of 484.
- One number stands for prices across all of Maine, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $34,969, the adjusted value of that $41,400 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 431 of 484 in the state.
- The Maine median of $41,400 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,440 to $58,380. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Maine take-home of $33,954, on $41,400 for work ranking 431 of 484 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 431 of 484 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maine, so $34,969 — the adjusted value of that $41,400 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 431 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $43,460, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $35,440 at the tenth percentile, $58,380 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Maine is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $34,969 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Maine's own levy, $33,954 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Maine is $43,460. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,440 to $58,380) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Maine rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Maine's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $34,969 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $33,954 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maine income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.