Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,673
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$9,117
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,830
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
$47,790
Kept after tax
$38,673
Worth in national money
$39,830
State rank
32
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays this job around $47,790 at the midpoint, 32 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 349 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 $47,790, tax leaves $38,673, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,830 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $50,390, since top earners drag the number up.
- For insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall the Maine median is $47,790, ranking 32 of 48 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall ranks 349 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 insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall — median $47,790 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $38,673 retained, $39,830 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $50,390 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,710 |
| This salary | $47,790 |
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 | $38,673 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,579 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,929 |
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 | $45,418 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,333 |
| 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 insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall in Maine earn under $47,790 and half over. The published range runs $37,260 at the tenth percentile to $62,710 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Maine the take-home figure of $38,673, from $47,790, 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 349 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 $39,830, the adjusted value of that $47,790 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 349 of 484 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,260 to $62,710; 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.
- Take-home for Maine is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $38,673 from $47,790. 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 349 of 484 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maine, so $39,830 — the adjusted value of that $47,790 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 349 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 $50,390 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,260 at the bottom tenth to $62,710 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $39,830 in national terms.
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, $38,673 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 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 $50,390. 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 ($37,260 to $62,710) 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 $39,830 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 $38,673 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.