Legal Support Workers, All Other in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,012
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$16,098
22.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,687
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
$72,110
Kept after tax
$56,012
Worth in national money
$57,687
State rank
15
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays legal support workers, all other around $72,110 at the midpoint, 15 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 156 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 $72,110, tax leaves $56,012, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $57,687 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $80,290, since top earners drag the number up.
- For legal support workers, all other the Maine median is $72,110, ranking 15 of 45 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.
- Legal support workers, all other ranks 156 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 legal support workers, all other — median $72,110 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $56,012 retained, $57,687 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $80,290 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Legal Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $113,960 |
| This salary | $72,110 |
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 | $56,012 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,559 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,604 |
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 | $67,068 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,979 |
| 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 legal support workers, all other in Maine earn under $72,110 and half over. The published range runs $52,580 at the tenth percentile to $113,960 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Maine the take-home figure of $56,012, from $72,110, 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 156 of 484 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $57,687 uses one figure for the whole of Maine. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 484 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 156.
- Figures are distribution medians for legal support workers, all other in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $52,580 to $113,960; 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 $56,012 from $72,110. 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 156 of 484 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $57,687, worked from $72,110, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Maine address, on work sitting at 156 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 $80,290, 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 $52,580, the highest tenth $113,960, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Maine sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $57,687 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $56,012 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $80,290. 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 ($52,580) and the ninetieth ($113,960) 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 $57,687 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 $56,012 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.