Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,528
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$7,642
18.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,561
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
$42,170
Kept after tax
$34,528
Worth in national money
$35,561
State rank
6
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Maine pays this job a middle wage of $42,170, ranking 6 of 49 states and sitting about 15% above the national middle.
- Against 484 occupations Maine publishes, this job lands at 429. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $42,170, tax leaves $34,528, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $35,561 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $43,070, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maine's median for farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals is $42,170, about 15% above the national figure and 6 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Maine, this work ranks 429 of 484 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals — median $42,170 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $34,528 retained, $35,561 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $43,070 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,850 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,170 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,180 |
| This salary | $42,170 |
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 | $34,528 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,064 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,551 |
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 | $40,259 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,876 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,170 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,850 and the ninetieth is $57,180 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maine's $34,528, worked from $42,170. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 429 of 484.
- Two cautions on $35,561, the adjusted value of that $42,170 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 429 of 484 locally.
- The Maine median of $42,170 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,850 to $57,180. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Maine take-home of $34,528, on $42,170 for work ranking 429 of 484 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 429 of 484 in the state.
- This $35,561 adjusted figure, worked from $42,170, 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 429 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 429 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $31,850 and the top tenth $57,180, so most people doing this work in Maine sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $35,561.
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, $34,528 remains.
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 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,850 to $57,180) 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 $35,561 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 $34,528 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.