Occupational Health and Safety Technicians in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,781
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$13,459
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,299
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
$64,240
Kept after tax
$50,781
Worth in national money
$52,299
State rank
21
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Maine pays this job around $64,240 at the midpoint, 21 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 188 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 $64,240, tax leaves $50,781, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $52,299 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $69,060, since top earners drag the number up.
- For occupational health and safety technicians the Maine median is $64,240, ranking 21 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.
- Occupational health and safety technicians ranks 188 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 occupational health and safety technicians — median $64,240 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,781 retained, $52,299 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $69,060 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,710 |
| This salary | $64,240 |
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 | $50,781 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,797 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,062 |
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 | $60,486 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,703 |
| 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 occupational health and safety technicians in Maine earn under $64,240 and half over. The published range runs $56,310 at the tenth percentile to $83,710 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maine's $50,781, worked from $64,240. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 188 of 484.
- Two cautions on $52,299, the adjusted value of that $64,240 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 188 of 484 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for occupational health and safety technicians in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $56,310 to $83,710; 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.
- The Maine take-home of $50,781, on $64,240 for work ranking 188 of 484 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 188 of 484 in the state.
- This $52,299 adjusted figure, worked from $64,240, 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 188 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 188 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $69,060, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $56,310 and the top tenth $83,710, so most people doing this work in Maine sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $52,299.
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, $50,781 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 $69,060. 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 ($56,310 to $83,710) 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 $52,299 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 $50,781 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.