Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,502
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$26,228
26.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,699
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
$99,730
Kept after tax
$73,502
Worth in national money
$75,699
State rank
13
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Maine's middle earner gets $99,730, putting the state 13 of 48 — about 2.84% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 484 occupations Maine reports, this job comes in at 57 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $99,730, tax leaves $73,502, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $75,699 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $110,290, since top earners drag the number up.
- For computer science teachers, postsecondary, Maine sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $99,730, ranking 13 of 48 and running about 2.84% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Computer science teachers, postsecondary ranks 57 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 computer science teachers, postsecondary — median $99,730 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $73,502 retained, $75,699 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $110,290 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,730 |
| Top tenth earn over | $161,560 |
| This salary | $99,730 |
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 | $73,502 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,990 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,587 |
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 | $91,928 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,718 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of computer science teachers, postsecondary in Maine earn under $99,730 and half over. The published range runs $60,870 at the tenth percentile to $161,560 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Maine the take-home figure of $73,502, from $99,730, 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 57 of 484 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $75,699, the adjusted value of that $99,730 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 57 of 484 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for computer science teachers, postsecondary in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $60,870 to $161,560; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Maine is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $73,502 from $99,730. 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 57 of 484 locally.
- This $75,699 adjusted figure, worked from $99,730, 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 57 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 57 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 $110,290 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $60,870, the highest tenth $161,560, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $75,699.
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 $73,502 of this wage survives to your account.
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 48 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 $110,290. 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 ($60,870) and the ninetieth ($161,560) 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 $75,699 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 $73,502 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.