Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel in Maine
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,530
after federal, FICA and Maine tax
Tax takes
$13,370
20.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,041
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
$63,900
Kept after tax
$50,530
Worth in national money
$52,041
State rank
25
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 $63,900, ranking 25 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: 194 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 $63,900 the take-home is $50,530, which is worth about $52,041 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $70,010, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Maine occupies the middle band for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel: a median of $63,900, ranking 25 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.
- Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel ranks 194 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 sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel on its $63,900 median: $50,530 retained after tax becomes $52,041 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $70,010 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,270 |
| This salary | $63,900 |
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 | $50,530 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,524 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,038 |
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 | $60,175 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,675 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,900 as a midpoint for Maine, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,040 and the ninetieth is $107,270 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $50,530 take-home in Maine comes from $63,900. 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 194 of 484.
- One number stands for prices across all of Maine, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $52,041, the adjusted value of that $63,900 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 194 of 484 in the state.
- The Maine median of $63,900 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,040 to $107,270. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $50,530, from $63,900, 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 194 of 484 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maine, so $52,041 — the adjusted value of that $63,900 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 194 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 $70,010, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $39,040, the highest tenth $107,270, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $52,041 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $50,530.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $70,010. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($39,040) and the ninetieth ($107,270) 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 $52,041 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 $50,530 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.