Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,836
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$12,044
20.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,236
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
$58,880
Kept after tax
$46,836
Worth in national money
$48,236
State rank
15
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Maine's middle earner gets $58,880, putting the state 15 of 47 — about 4.12% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 256 of 484 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $58,880 the take-home is $46,836, which is worth about $48,236 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $60,990, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For farm equipment mechanics and service technicians, Maine sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $58,880, ranking 15 of 47 and running about 4.12% 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.
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians ranks 256 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.
- Maine's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians on its $58,880 median: $46,836 retained after tax becomes $48,236 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $60,990 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $85,550 |
| This salary | $58,880 |
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 | $46,836 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,490 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,693 |
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 | $55,577 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,257 |
| 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 farm equipment mechanics and service technicians in Maine earn under $58,880 and half over. The published range runs $41,630 at the tenth percentile to $85,550 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $46,836 take-home in Maine comes from $58,880. 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 256 of 484.
- Two cautions on $48,236, the adjusted value of that $58,880 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 256 of 484 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,630 to $85,550; 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.
- Retained pay of $46,836, from $58,880, 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 256 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 47 for it.
- This $48,236 adjusted figure, worked from $58,880, 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 256 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 256 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 $60,990, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $41,630 and the top tenth $85,550 — 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 $48,236.
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 $46,836 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 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 $60,990. 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 ($41,630) and the ninetieth ($85,550) 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 $48,236 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 $46,836 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.