Community Health Workers in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,321
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$9,349
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,497
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
$48,670
Kept after tax
$39,321
Worth in national money
$40,497
State rank
35
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maine is among the lower-paying states for community health workers. The middle earner takes $48,670, ranking 35 of 51 states — about 6.13% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 327 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 $48,670, tax leaves $39,321, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $40,497 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $50,330, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maine ranks 35 of 51 for community health workers, with a median of $48,670 — about 6.13% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Community health workers ranks 327 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 community health workers — median $48,670 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,321 retained, $40,497 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $50,330 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Community Health Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,360 |
| This salary | $48,670 |
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 | $39,321 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,286 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,990 |
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 | $46,224 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,406 |
| 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 $48,670. The published range is $41,770 up to $61,360, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $39,321 take-home in Maine comes from $48,670. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 327 of 484.
- Two cautions on $40,497, the adjusted value of that $48,670 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 327 of 484 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for community health workers in Maine the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $41,770 to $61,360. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $39,321, from $48,670, assumes a single Maine filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 327 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 35 of 51 for it.
- This $40,497 adjusted figure, worked from $48,670, 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 327 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 327 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 $50,330 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $41,770 at the tenth percentile, $61,360 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 $40,497 in national terms.
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 $39,321.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $50,330. 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 ($41,770 to $61,360) 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 $40,497 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 $39,321 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.