Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,376
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$18,024
23.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,152
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
$77,400
Kept after tax
$59,376
Worth in national money
$61,152
State rank
20
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays this job around $77,400 at the midpoint, 20 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 136 among 484 occupations Maine publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $77,400, tax leaves $59,376, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $61,152 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $81,610, since top earners drag the number up.
- For compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists the Maine median is $77,400, ranking 20 of 50 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.
- Position 136 of 484 in Maine places compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists — median $77,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $59,376 retained, $61,152 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $81,610 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,690 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,440 |
| This salary | $77,400 |
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 | $59,376 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,281 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,969 |
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 | $71,850 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,482 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $77,400 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $55,690 and the ninetieth is $104,440 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Maine the take-home figure of $59,376, from $77,400, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 136 of 484 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $61,152 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 136.
- The Maine median of $77,400 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $55,690 to $104,440. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Maine is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $59,376 from $77,400. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 136 of 484 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $61,152, worked from $77,400, 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 136 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 $81,610, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $55,690 and the top tenth $104,440, so most people doing this work in Maine sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $61,152 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, $59,376 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 $81,610. 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 ($55,690 to $104,440) 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 $61,152 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 $59,376 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.