Medical Records Specialists in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,838
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$10,252
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,089
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
$52,090
Kept after tax
$41,838
Worth in national money
$43,089
State rank
25
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays medical records specialists around $52,090 at the midpoint, 25 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 294 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 $52,090, take-home of $41,838 is worth roughly $43,089 in national money. The average comes to $56,670, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For medical records specialists the Maine median is $52,090, ranking 25 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.
- Medical records specialists ranks 294 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 medical records specialists, whose median is $52,090, the adjusted figure of $43,089 differs little from $41,838 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $56,670 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Medical Records Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,090 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,660 |
| This salary | $52,090 |
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 | $41,838 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,034 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,225 |
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 | $49,357 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,691 |
| 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 medical records specialists in Maine earn under $52,090 and half over. The published range runs $42,210 at the tenth percentile to $76,660 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $41,838 take-home in Maine comes from $52,090. 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 294 of 484.
- Two cautions on $43,089, the adjusted value of that $52,090 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 294 of 484 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for medical records specialists in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $42,210 to $76,660; 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 $41,838, from $52,090, 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 294 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 51 for it.
- This $43,089 adjusted figure, worked from $52,090, 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 294 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 294 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 $56,670 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 $42,210 at the bottom tenth to $76,660 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $43,089.
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, $41,838 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 $56,670. 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 ($42,210 to $76,660) 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 $43,089 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 $41,838 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.