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Maine Salary Calculator 2026

Convert hourly ↔ annual salary and benchmark your pay against Maine-adjusted BLS medians for 20+ trade roles. Maine is pre-selected; includes overtime.

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Hourly ↔ Annual Reference Table

Hourly RateAnnual (2,080 hrs)MonthlyWeekly
$15.00/hr$31,200$2,600$600
$20.00/hr$41,600$3,467$800
$25.00/hr$52,000$4,333$1,000
$30.00/hr$62,400$5,200$1,200
$35.00/hr$72,800$6,067$1,400
$40.00/hr$83,200$6,933$1,600
$45.00/hr$93,600$7,800$1,800
$50.00/hr$104,000$8,667$2,000
$60.00/hr$124,800$10,400$2,400
$75.00/hr$156,000$13,000$3,000
$100.00/hr$208,000$17,333$4,000
$125.00/hr$260,000$21,667$5,000

Salary Calculator FAQ

How do you convert hourly rate to annual salary?

Multiply your hourly rate by 2,080 (40 hours × 52 weeks) for a standard full-time annual salary. Example: $30/hr × 2,080 = $62,400/yr. For overtime weeks, use: (40 hrs × rate) + (OT hrs × rate × 1.5) × number of weeks.

How many working hours are in a year?

Standard full-time: 2,080 hours (40 × 52). Minus 10 federal holidays (80 hrs): 2,000 paid hours. Minus 2 weeks vacation (80 hrs): 1,920 hours actually worked. BLS uses 2,080 for hourly-to-annual conversions. Turnaround and shutdown workers can exceed 3,000 hours/yr with heavy overtime.

What is time-and-a-half overtime?

Under the FLSA, non-exempt employees must receive 1.5× their regular rate for all hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. Example: $30/hr base · regular week = $1,200 (40 hrs) · one 10-hr OT week = $1,200 + ($30 × 1.5 × 10) = $1,200 + $450 = $1,650. Double time (2×) is not federally required but common in petrochemical and union contracts.

Maine Salaries

How Maine salaries compare to the national market

Maine trade wages run about 5% below the national median (BLS OEWS May 2025), and this calculator applies a 0.95 Maine wage index to national medians. Bath Iron Works is the anchor, its destroyer programme sustains one of New England's largest concentrations of welders, shipfitters and electricians, while Portland's commercial and multifamily construction and a statewide weatherisation and heat-pump retrofit push keep the mechanical trades busy. On the tax side, Maine withholds 5.8%-7.15%, and employees also fund the state's paid-leave premium of up to 0.5%.

Maine: maine salary calculator — Maine wage index 0.95× national BLS median, Gross vs national ~5% below, State income tax 5.8%-7.15%. Simplified outline of Maine, stylised and not to scale.
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Maine trade salaries at a glance (2026 BLS)

Maine-adjusted BLS OEWS medians for common skilled trades (national median localised with the 0.95 Maine wage index). Enter your own pay in the calculator above to benchmark against any role.

TradeMaine median / yrNational medianMaine / hr
Electrician$60,030$63,190$28.86
Plumber$60,610$63,800$29.14
HVAC Technician$57,960$61,010$27.87
Pipefitter$60,610$63,800$29.14
Ironworker$59,640$62,780$28.67
Carpenter$57,550$60,580$27.67

Trade pay by Maine metro

Local BLS medians vs the Maine state average.

MetroMedianvs state
Portland$63,6301.06× state
Lewiston-Auburn$58,2300.97× state
Bangor$57,6300.96× state
Augusta$57,0300.95× state
What is driving trade demand in Maine?

Shipbuilding and retrofit work. Bath Iron Works' destroyer programme keeps hundreds of welders, shipfitters, pipefitters and electricians employed on long-cycle contracts, and it competes for the same people as Portsmouth Naval Shipyard across the New Hampshire line. Away from the coast, the state's aggressive heat-pump and weatherisation programmes have given HVAC and insulation crews years of steady residential work.

How accurate is the Maine benchmark in this calculator?

The calculator applies a Maine wage index (0.95×) to national BLS OEWS medians, a reference estimate, not a quote. Portland scale runs above the state figure while rural markets run below it. For exact BLS state and metro medians with percentiles, use the Maine salary guide.

Does a Maine salary go as far as the number suggests?

Not entirely. Maine withholds 5.8%-7.15% from every paycheck, and employees also fund the state's paid-leave premium of up to 0.5%, which costs roughly $4,648 a year on a $65,000 salary before any local layer. That is why a gross figure here is not directly comparable with one from a no-income-tax state; run both through the Maine paycheck calculator to compare take-home.

What is the median trade salary in Maine?

It varies by role: the Maine electrician median is about $60,030, plumbers $60,610, HVAC technicians $57,960, and pipefitters $60,610 (BLS OEWS May 2025, Maine-adjusted). Enter your own pay in the calculator to see your percentile against any role.

How is the Maine wage index applied?

National BLS OEWS medians are multiplied by a 0.95 Maine factor to localise them, reflecting that Maine gross pay runs about 5% below the national average. Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year. It is a reference estimate, not an employer offer.

Which Maine metros pay trades the most?

Portland pays the most, about 6% above the state figure, on commercial, hospital and multifamily work in a market with genuinely scarce labour. Lewiston-Auburn and Bangor track just below the state median, and Augusta lowest; the Bath and Brunswick shipyard corridor pays to its own scale rather than the local one.

Do Maine trade wages include overtime?

The benchmark medians are base pay. Maine follows the federal 1.5x-after-40 standard and caps mandatory overtime at 80 hours in any two-week period outside emergencies. Shipyard schedules at Bath are the state's most reliable source of premium hours. This calculator lets you add overtime hours at 1.5x (or 2x) to model total annual pay.

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Sources & methodology

Salary figures are U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS (May 2025) national medians localised with a 0.95 Maine wage index; hourly rates assume 2,080 paid hours a year. Primary sources: BLS OEWS · Maine Revenue Services · Maine Department of Labor. Reviewed 2026-07-25 by the GlobalCybers Data Desk · reference estimates, not an offer of pay. Full methodology →

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