Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,002
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$8,158
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,078
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
$44,160
Kept after tax
$36,002
Worth in national money
$37,078
State rank
45
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Maine. The middle earner gets $44,160. That is 45 of 49 states, and about 22.16% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 484 occupations Maine publishes, this job lands at 407. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $44,160, tax leaves $36,002, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $37,078 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $46,580, since top earners drag the number up.
- For community and social service specialists, all other, Maine sits in the lower band at $44,160, ranking 45 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 22.16%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Maine, this work ranks 407 of 484 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for community and social service specialists, all other — median $44,160 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $36,002 retained, $37,078 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $46,580 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,590 |
| This salary | $44,160 |
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 | $36,002 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,663 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,679 |
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 | $42,093 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,031 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $44,160 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,280 and the ninetieth is $62,590 — 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 $36,002, worked from $44,160. 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 407 of 484.
- One number stands for prices across all of Maine, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $37,078, the adjusted value of that $44,160 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 407 of 484 in the state.
- The Maine median of $44,160 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,280 to $62,590. 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 $36,002, on $44,160 for work ranking 407 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 407 of 484 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maine, so $37,078 — the adjusted value of that $44,160 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 407 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 $46,580, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,280 at the tenth percentile, $62,590 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Maine sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $37,078 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $36,002 remains.
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 49 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 $46,580. 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 ($33,280 to $62,590) 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 $37,078 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 $36,002 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.