Insurance Sales Agents in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,809
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$13,111
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,298
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
$62,920
Kept after tax
$49,809
Worth in national money
$51,298
State rank
20
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays insurance sales agents around $62,920 at the midpoint, 20 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 205 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 $62,920, tax leaves $49,809, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $51,298 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $71,300, since top earners drag the number up.
- For insurance sales agents the Maine median is $62,920, ranking 20 of 51 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.
- Insurance sales agents ranks 205 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 insurance sales agents — median $62,920 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $49,809 retained, $51,298 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $71,300 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Insurance Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,920 |
| Top tenth earn over | $106,990 |
| This salary | $62,920 |
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 | $49,809 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,736 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,971 |
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 | $59,277 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,593 |
| 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 insurance sales agents in Maine earn under $62,920 and half over. The published range runs $47,370 at the tenth percentile to $106,990 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $49,809 take-home in Maine comes from $62,920. 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 205 of 484.
- One number stands for prices across all of Maine, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $51,298, the adjusted value of that $62,920 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 205 of 484 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for insurance sales agents in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $47,370 to $106,990; 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.
- Retained pay of $49,809, from $62,920, 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 205 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maine, so $51,298 — the adjusted value of that $62,920 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 205 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 $71,300, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $47,370, the highest tenth $106,990, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $51,298.
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, $49,809 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $71,300. 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 ($47,370) and the ninetieth ($106,990) 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 $51,298 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 $49,809 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.