Home Appliance Repairers in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,724
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$8,776
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,852
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
$46,500
Kept after tax
$37,724
Worth in national money
$38,852
State rank
40
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maine is among the lower-paying states for home appliance repairers. The middle earner takes $46,500, ranking 40 of 50 states — about 8.81% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Measured against other jobs in Maine, this one sits low: 379 of 484 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $46,500, tax leaves $37,724, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $38,852 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $48,400, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maine ranks 40 of 50 for home appliance repairers, with a median of $46,500 — about 8.81% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Home appliance repairers occupies position 379 of 484 in Maine's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for home appliance repairers — median $46,500 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $37,724 retained, $38,852 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $48,400 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Home Appliance Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,850 |
| This salary | $46,500 |
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 | $37,724 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,543 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,840 |
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 | $44,237 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,226 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,500 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,600 and the ninetieth is $59,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $37,724 take-home in Maine comes from $46,500. 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 379 of 484.
- Two cautions on $38,852, the adjusted value of that $46,500 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 379 of 484 locally.
- The Maine median of $46,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,600 to $59,850. 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 $37,724, from $46,500, 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 379 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 50 for it.
- This $38,852 adjusted figure, worked from $46,500, 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 379 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 379 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 $48,400 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,600 and the top tenth $59,850, 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 $38,852.
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, $37,724 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $48,400. 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 ($35,600 to $59,850) 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 $38,852 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 $37,724 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.