Broadcast Technicians in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,061
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$11,049
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,378
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
$55,110
Kept after tax
$44,061
Worth in national money
$45,378
State rank
16
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maine sits in the middle of the pack for broadcast technicians. The median is $55,110, ranking 16 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 284 of 484 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $55,110, tax leaves $44,061, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $45,378 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $58,420, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maine occupies the middle band for broadcast technicians: a median of $55,110, ranking 16 of 47. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Broadcast technicians ranks 284 of 484 occupations in Maine by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for broadcast technicians — median $55,110 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $44,061 retained, $45,378 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $58,420 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Broadcast Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,180 |
| This salary | $55,110 |
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 | $44,061 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,461 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,433 |
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 | $52,123 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,943 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $55,110 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,040 and the ninetieth is $82,180 — 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 $44,061, worked from $55,110. 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 284 of 484.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $45,378 uses one figure for the whole of Maine. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 484 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 284.
- The Maine median of $55,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,040 to $82,180. 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 $44,061, on $55,110 for work ranking 284 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 284 of 484 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $45,378, worked from $55,110, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Maine address, on work sitting at 284 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $58,420 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $40,040 and the top tenth $82,180 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $45,378.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Maine then takes its own share, leaving $44,061.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $58,420. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($40,040) and the ninetieth ($82,180) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $45,378 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 $44,061 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.