Pest Control Workers in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,078
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$9,262
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,247
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
$48,340
Kept after tax
$39,078
Worth in national money
$40,247
State rank
9
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maine is one of the better-paying states for pest control workers. The middle earner takes $48,340, which ranks 9 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 6.83% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 337 of 484 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $48,340 the take-home is $39,078, which is worth about $40,247 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $50,830, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Maine ranks 9 of 50 states publishing a median for pest control workers, at $48,340 — about 6.83% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Pest control workers ranks 337 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.
- Maine's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for pest control workers on its $48,340 median: $39,078 retained after tax becomes $40,247 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $50,830 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Pest Control Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,300 |
| This salary | $48,340 |
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 | $39,078 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,021 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,967 |
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 | $45,922 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,379 |
| 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 pest control workers in Maine earn under $48,340 and half over. The published range runs $46,130 at the tenth percentile to $60,300 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,078 take-home in Maine comes from $48,340. 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 337 of 484.
- Two cautions on $40,247, the adjusted value of that $48,340 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 337 of 484 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for pest control workers in Maine, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,130 to $60,300; 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 $39,078, from $48,340, 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 337 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 9 of 50 for it.
- This $40,247 adjusted figure, worked from $48,340, 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 337 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 337 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 $50,830 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $46,130 at the tenth percentile, $60,300 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Maine is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $40,247 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Maine then takes its own share, leaving $39,078.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $50,830. 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 ($46,130 to $60,300) 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 $40,247 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 $39,078 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.