Funeral Attendants in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,411
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$6,919
17.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,380
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
$39,330
Kept after tax
$32,411
Worth in national money
$33,380
State rank
15
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for funeral attendants is strong here. Maine's middle earner gets $39,330, putting the state 15 of 48 — about 10.23% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 484 occupations Maine publishes, funeral attendants lands at 439. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $39,330, tax leaves $32,411, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $33,380 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $40,600, since top earners drag the number up.
- For funeral attendants, Maine sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $39,330, ranking 15 of 48 and running about 10.23% 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.
- Within Maine, this work ranks 439 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 funeral attendants — median $39,330 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $32,411 retained, $33,380 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $40,600 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Funeral Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,490 |
| This salary | $39,330 |
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 | $32,411 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,782 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,384 |
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 | $37,624 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,673 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $39,330 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,140 and the ninetieth is $46,490 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $32,411 take-home in Maine comes from $39,330. 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 439 of 484.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $33,380 uses one figure for the whole of Maine. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 484 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 439.
- The Maine median of $39,330 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,140 to $46,490. 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 $32,411, from $39,330, 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 439 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $33,380, worked from $39,330, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Maine address, on work sitting at 439 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 $40,600, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $35,140 at the bottom tenth to $46,490 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $33,380.
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 $32,411 of this wage survives to your account.
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 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $40,600. 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 ($35,140 to $46,490) 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 $33,380 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 $32,411 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.