Electricians in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,092
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$17,288
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,829
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
$75,380
Kept after tax
$58,092
Worth in national money
$59,829
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for electricians is strong here. Maine's middle earner gets $75,380, putting the state 17 of 51 — about 19.29% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 145 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 $75,380, tax leaves $58,092, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $59,829 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $77,250, since top earners drag the number up.
- For electricians, Maine sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $75,380, ranking 17 of 51 and running about 19.29% 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.
- Electricians ranks 145 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 electricians — median $75,380 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $58,092 retained, $59,829 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $77,250 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Electricians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $54,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,720 |
| This salary | $75,380 |
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 | $58,092 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,860 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,830 |
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 | $70,024 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,290 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $75,380 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $54,180 and the ninetieth is $115,720 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Maine the take-home figure of $58,092, from $75,380, 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 145 of 484 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $59,829, the adjusted value of that $75,380 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 145 of 484 locally.
- The Maine median of $75,380 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $54,180 to $115,720. 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 $58,092 from $75,380. 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 145 of 484 locally.
- This $59,829 adjusted figure, worked from $75,380, 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 145 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 145 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $54,180 and the top tenth $115,720 — 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 $59,829.
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 $58,092 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($54,180) and the ninetieth ($115,720) 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 $59,829 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 $58,092 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.