Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,536
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$9,784
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,747
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
$50,320
Kept after tax
$40,536
Worth in national money
$41,747
State rank
43
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Maine. The middle earner gets $50,320. That is 43 of 50 states, and about 26.02% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 484 occupations Maine reports figures for, this is number 306.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $50,320, tax leaves $40,536, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $41,747 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $64,690, since top earners drag the number up.
- For health information technologists and medical registrars, Maine sits in the lower band at $50,320, ranking 43 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 26.02%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In Maine's occupational distribution, health information technologists and medical registrars sits at 306 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 health information technologists and medical registrars — median $50,320 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $40,536 retained, $41,747 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $64,690 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,550 |
| This salary | $50,320 |
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 | $40,536 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,612 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,103 |
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 | $47,736 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,544 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Maine earn less than $50,320. The published range is $43,490 up to $101,550, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Maine the take-home figure of $40,536, from $50,320, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 306 of 484 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $41,747, the adjusted value of that $50,320 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 306 of 484 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for health information technologists and medical registrars in Maine the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,490 to $101,550. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Maine is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $40,536 from $50,320. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 306 of 484 locally.
- This $41,747 adjusted figure, worked from $50,320, 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 306 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 306 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 $64,690, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $43,490 at the bottom tenth to $101,550 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 $41,747.
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 $40,536 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 50 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 $64,690. 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 ($43,490) and the ninetieth ($101,550) 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 $41,747 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 $40,536 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.