Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,807
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$12,393
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,237
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
$60,200
Kept after tax
$47,807
Worth in national money
$49,237
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maine sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $60,200, ranking 22 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Maine, this sits in the middle: 236 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 $60,200 the take-home is $47,807, which is worth about $49,237 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $60,890, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Maine occupies the middle band for production, planning, and expediting clerks: a median of $60,200, ranking 22 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Production, planning, and expediting clerks ranks 236 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 production, planning, and expediting clerks on its $60,200 median: $47,807 retained after tax becomes $49,237 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $60,890 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,100 |
| This salary | $60,200 |
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 | $47,807 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,551 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,784 |
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 | $56,786 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,367 |
| 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 $60,200. The published range is $35,200 up to $92,100, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $47,807 take-home in Maine comes from $60,200. 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 236 of 484.
- Two cautions on $49,237, the adjusted value of that $60,200 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 236 of 484 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for production, planning, and expediting clerks in Maine the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,200 to $92,100. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $47,807, from $60,200, 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 236 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 51 for it.
- This $49,237 adjusted figure, worked from $60,200, 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 236 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 236 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $35,200, the highest tenth $92,100, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $49,237 in national terms.
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, $47,807 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($35,200) and the ninetieth ($92,100) 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 $49,237 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 $47,807 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.