Maintenance Workers, Machinery in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,993
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$10,307
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,248
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
$52,300
Kept after tax
$41,993
Worth in national money
$43,248
State rank
42
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Maine pays maintenance workers, machinery a middle wage of $52,300, 42 of 46 states and about 14.05% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 293 of 484 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Maine costs about what the country costs, so from $52,300, take-home of $41,993 is worth roughly $43,248 in national money. The average comes to $56,110, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Maine's $52,300 median for maintenance workers, machinery places it 42 of 46 states, about 14.05% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Maintenance workers, machinery ranks 293 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.
- Price parity in Maine is near the national base, so for maintenance workers, machinery, whose median is $52,300, the adjusted figure of $43,248 differs little from $41,993 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $56,110 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Maintenance Workers, Machinery
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,930 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,200 |
| This salary | $52,300 |
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 | $41,993 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,203 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,240 |
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 | $49,549 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,709 |
| 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 $52,300. The published range is $45,930 up to $70,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $41,993 take-home in Maine comes from $52,300. 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 293 of 484.
- Two cautions on $43,248, the adjusted value of that $52,300 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 293 of 484 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for maintenance workers, machinery in Maine the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,930 to $70,200. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $41,993, from $52,300, 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 293 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 46 for it.
- This $43,248 adjusted figure, worked from $52,300, 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 293 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 293 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 $56,110, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $45,930 at the bottom tenth to $70,200 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $43,248 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 $41,993 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 46 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 $56,110. 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 ($45,930 to $70,200) 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 $43,248 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 $41,993 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.