Architectural and Engineering Managers in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$102,089
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$43,631
29.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$105,141
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
$145,720
Kept after tax
$102,089
Worth in national money
$105,141
State rank
47
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Maine. The middle earner gets $145,720. That is 47 of 51 states, and about 14.92% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 484 occupations Maine reports, this job comes in at 10 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $145,720, tax leaves $102,089, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $105,141 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $154,620, since top earners drag the number up.
- For architectural and engineering managers, Maine sits in the lower band at $145,720, ranking 47 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 14.92%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Architectural and engineering managers ranks 10 of 484 occupations by median in Maine, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for architectural and engineering managers — median $145,720 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $102,089 retained, $105,141 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $154,620 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Architectural and Engineering Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $111,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $145,720 |
| Top tenth earn over | $208,140 |
| This salary | $145,720 |
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 | $102,089 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $110,866 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,947 |
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 | $132,879 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,721 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Maine earn less than $145,720. The published range is $111,490 up to $208,140, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maine's $102,089, worked from $145,720. 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 10 of 484.
- Two cautions on $105,141, the adjusted value of that $145,720 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Maine. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 10 of 484 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for architectural and engineering managers in Maine the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $111,490 to $208,140. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Maine take-home of $102,089, on $145,720 for work ranking 10 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 10 of 484 in the state.
- This $105,141 adjusted figure, worked from $145,720, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 10 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 10 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $154,620, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $111,490 at the bottom tenth to $208,140 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $105,141 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Maine adds its own income tax on top — which is why $102,089 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $154,620. 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 ($111,490 to $208,140) 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 $105,141 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 $102,089 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.