SALARY · FOOD PREPARATION WORKERS · MAINE

Food Preparation Workers salary in Maine

If Maine is on your shortlist, start here. The median annual pay for food preparation workers was $36,030. That one figure will not decide a move on its own, but it sets the range for everything else, from housing to how much you can save.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$36,030

$17 per hour at the median · That is $710 (2.0 percent) above the national median of $35,320 for this occupation.

$37,470Mean annual salary
$18Mean hourly wage
$4,560People employed in this job in Maine

Salary range

25th: $33,760Median: $36,03075th: $39,060
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$33,760
Median (50th percentile)$36,030
75th percentile$39,060
Mean$37,470

The middle half of workers earned from $33,760 to $39,060 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$30,258 a year
$2,522 a month
Federal tax $2,144 · FICA $2,756 · State tax $872

Caveat: the Maine Revenue Services revised May 2026 rate schedule PDF returned HTTP 403 and was not retrieved directly. Brackets and the $5,300 exemption rest on the September 2025 MRS schedule as reported and consistent secondary reporting; the $15,700 standard deduction is settled by a directly retrieved August 2026 MRS alert.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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