Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,957
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$6,423
17.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,883
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
$37,380
Kept after tax
$30,957
Worth in national money
$31,883
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks is strong here. Maine's middle earner gets $37,380, putting the state 12 of 51 — about 6.59% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Maine this is lower-paid work. Of 484 occupations the state publishes figures for, hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ranks 462. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $37,380 the take-home is $30,957, which is worth about $31,883 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $39,270, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks, Maine sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $37,380, ranking 12 of 51 and running about 6.59% 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.
- Against every occupation Maine reports, hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ranks 462 of 484, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Maine's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks on its $37,380 median: $30,957 retained after tax becomes $31,883 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $39,270 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,680 |
| This salary | $37,380 |
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 | $30,957 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,215 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,268 |
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 | $35,815 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,534 |
| 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 $37,380. The published range is $33,280 up to $47,680, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Maine the take-home figure of $30,957, from $37,380, 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 462 of 484 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Maine, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $31,883, the adjusted value of that $37,380 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 462 of 484 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks in Maine the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $33,280 to $47,680. 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 $30,957 from $37,380. 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 462 of 484 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maine, so $31,883 — the adjusted value of that $37,380 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 462 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 $39,270, 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?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,280 at the tenth percentile, $47,680 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Maine is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $31,883 in national terms.
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 $30,957 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 $39,270. 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 ($33,280 to $47,680) 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 $31,883 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 $30,957 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.