State labor market
Maine labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Maine. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Maine hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Maine.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Maine workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
Home health and personal care aides
18,630estimated employmentGeneral and operations managers
14,770estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Maine figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$86,990/yr Maine median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$123,120/yr Maine median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$75,380/yr Maine median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$77,480/yr Maine median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$62,390/yr Maine median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$135,380/yr Maine median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Maine occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Maine workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Physicians, all other$419,410/yr state median · 1,340 workers+57.7%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- Bartenders$48,920/yr state median · 3,230 workers+42.5%vs. U.S. $34,340/yr
- Financial specialists, all other$109,060/yr state median · 1,250 workers+34.5%vs. U.S. $81,100/yr
- Teaching assistants, except postsecondary$46,750/yr state median · 8,700 workers+27.1%vs. U.S. $36,780/yr
- Dental assistants$60,070/yr state median · 1,550 workers+25.0%vs. U.S. $48,070/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Chief executives$138,770/yr state median · 1,580 workers-35.2%vs. U.S. $213,990/yr
- Lawyers$113,120/yr state median · 2,280 workers-29.2%vs. U.S. $159,670/yr
- Management analysts$75,530/yr state median · 2,910 workers-25.8%vs. U.S. $101,860/yr
- Data scientists$90,880/yr state median · 1,210 workers-24.4%vs. U.S. $120,230/yr
- Financial managers$133,610/yr state median · 3,120 workers-19.8%vs. U.S. $166,570/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Maine
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Maine. Links marked “Maine report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Maine report is available.
613 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.