Fundraisers in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,628
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$14,162
21.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,202
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
$66,790
Kept after tax
$52,628
Worth in national money
$54,202
State rank
23
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays fundraisers around $66,790 at the midpoint, 23 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 484 occupations Maine reports figures for, this is number 173.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $66,790, tax leaves $52,628, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $54,202 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $71,500, since top earners drag the number up.
- For fundraisers the Maine median is $66,790, ranking 23 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.
- In Maine's occupational distribution, fundraisers sits at 173 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.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for fundraisers — median $66,790 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $52,628 retained, $54,202 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $71,500 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Fundraisers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,890 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,160 |
| This salary | $66,790 |
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 | $52,628 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,817 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,237 |
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 | $62,786 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,951 |
| 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 fundraisers in Maine earn under $66,790 and half over. The published range runs $48,890 at the tenth percentile to $101,160 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maine's $52,628, worked from $66,790. 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 173 of 484.
- Two cautions on $54,202, the adjusted value of that $66,790 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 173 of 484 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for fundraisers in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,890 to $101,160; 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.
- The Maine take-home of $52,628, on $66,790 for work ranking 173 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 173 of 484 in the state.
- This $54,202 adjusted figure, worked from $66,790, 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 173 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 173 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 $71,500 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $48,890 at the bottom tenth to $101,160 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $54,202.
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, $52,628 remains.
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 $71,500. 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 ($48,890) and the ninetieth ($101,160) 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 $54,202 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 $52,628 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.