Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,676
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$12,704
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,131
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
$61,380
Kept after tax
$48,676
Worth in national money
$50,131
State rank
4
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Maine pays this job a middle wage of $61,380, ranking 4 of 51 states and sitting about 24.68% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 226 of 484 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $61,380, tax leaves $48,676, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $50,131 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $61,550, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maine's median for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other is $61,380, about 24.68% above the national figure and 4 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other ranks 226 of 484 occupations in Maine by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Maine sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other — median $61,380 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $48,676 retained, $50,131 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $61,550 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,520 |
| This salary | $61,380 |
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 | $48,676 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,499 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,865 |
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 | $57,866 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,465 |
| 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 installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in Maine earn under $61,380 and half over. The published range runs $43,520 at the tenth percentile to $80,520 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 $48,676, worked from $61,380. 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 226 of 484.
- Two cautions on $50,131, the adjusted value of that $61,380 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 226 of 484 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $43,520 to $80,520; 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 $48,676, on $61,380 for work ranking 226 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 226 of 484 in the state.
- This $50,131 adjusted figure, worked from $61,380, 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 226 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 226 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $43,520 at the tenth percentile, $80,520 at the ninetieth.
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 $50,131.
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 $48,676 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($43,520 to $80,520) 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 $50,131 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 $48,676 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.