Floral Designers in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,876
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$6,054
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,770
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
$35,930
Kept after tax
$29,876
Worth in national money
$30,770
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays floral designers around $35,930 at the midpoint, 27 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 484 occupations Maine publishes, floral designers lands at 473. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $35,930, tax leaves $29,876, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $30,770 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $38,310, since top earners drag the number up.
- For floral designers the Maine median is $35,930, ranking 27 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Maine, this work ranks 473 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 floral designers — median $35,930 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $29,876 retained, $30,770 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $38,310 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Floral Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,930 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,270 |
| This salary | $35,930 |
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 | $29,876 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,050 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,183 |
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 | $34,470 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,430 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $35,930 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,340 and the ninetieth is $47,270 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $29,876 take-home in Maine comes from $35,930. 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 473 of 484.
- Two cautions on $30,770, the adjusted value of that $35,930 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 473 of 484 locally.
- The Maine median of $35,930 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,340 to $47,270. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $29,876, from $35,930, 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 473 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 51 for it.
- This $30,770 adjusted figure, worked from $35,930, 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 473 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 473 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $38,310, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $31,340 and the top tenth $47,270, 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 $30,770.
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 $29,876 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.
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 $38,310. 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 ($31,340 to $47,270) 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 $30,770 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 $29,876 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.