First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,817
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$13,473
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,337
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
$64,290
Kept after tax
$50,817
Worth in national money
$52,337
State rank
13
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maine is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $64,290, which ranks 13 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 8.38% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 484 occupations Maine reports figures for, this is number 186.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $64,290 the take-home is $50,817, which is worth about $52,337 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $70,820, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Maine ranks 13 of 48 states publishing a median for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers, at $64,290 — about 8.38% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- In Maine's occupational distribution, first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers sits at 186 of 484 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Maine's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers on its $64,290 median: $50,817 retained after tax becomes $52,337 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $70,820 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,070 |
| This salary | $64,290 |
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 | $50,817 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,837 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,065 |
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 | $60,532 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,707 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $64,290 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $52,180 and the ninetieth is $93,070 — 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 $50,817, worked from $64,290. 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 186 of 484.
- Two cautions on $52,337, the adjusted value of that $64,290 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 186 of 484 locally.
- The Maine median of $64,290 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $52,180 to $93,070. 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 $50,817, on $64,290 for work ranking 186 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 186 of 484 in the state.
- This $52,337 adjusted figure, worked from $64,290, 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 186 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 186 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 $70,820 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $52,180 at the tenth percentile, $93,070 at the ninetieth.
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 $52,337 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $50,817 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 $70,820. 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 ($52,180 to $93,070) 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 $52,337 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 $50,817 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.