Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 2300001 · Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-UNK · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #301/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MID 276 occs
- TOP-LEAD Financial Spec… · $367K
- EMP-MIX Education Ad…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Kankakee, IL
- BOOK-MOST 274 rows · May 2025
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Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Northeast Maine nonmetropol…
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 290 jobs · $99,170
- 2. Financial Managers 220 jobs · $126,920
- 3. Financial Specialists, All Other 180 jobs · $366,660
- 4. Chief Executives 180 jobs · $109,990
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $104,750
- 6. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 160 jobs · $95,790
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 150 jobs · $127,800
- 8. Managers, All Other 150 jobs · $122,930
- 9. Pharmacists 140 jobs · $138,920
- 10. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 140 jobs · $106,330
- 11. Lawyers 90 jobs · $100,590
- 12. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $142,780
- 13. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $130,520
- 14. Physician Assistants 70 jobs · $126,970
- 15. Physicians, All Other 60 jobs · $363,850
- 16. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $257,230
- 17. Software Developers 60 jobs · $130,600
- 18. Veterinarians 50 jobs · $129,440
Occupations Tracked
276
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,836
employment-weighted, 274 complete rows
Top Salary
$366,660
Financial Specialists, All Other
Top-pay occupations in Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Northeast Maine nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $30,470 |
| Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other | $30,630 |
| Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians | $31,520 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $33,720 |
| Cashiers | $33,980 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $34,090 |
| Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals | $34,280 |
| Healthcare Support Workers, All Other | $34,470 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $34,510 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $34,730 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in ME
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside ME. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($56,836 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The local-area benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.