Maine / Department of Public Safety / Office Associate I
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
1 employees hold this title in Department of Public Safety. Median total compensation for the role is $23,460, below the department median of $84,853.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in Maine, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 11,260 people — is $45,300. Department of Public Safety pays a median base salary of $43,920 for this role, 3% below that figure — about the 45th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Office Clerks, General across every employer in Maine, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Public Safety’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 2,464,940 people — is $45,010. Department of Public Safety’s median base salary is 2% below that national figure, about the 47th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Maine range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 34 of 59 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of Public Safety is $43,955, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Office Associate I is held in 9 Maine departments. In Department of Public Safety, the median of $23,460 ranks #6 of 9.
Median total compensation for the Office Associate I role in other Mainedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. In Maine, the median of $31,851 ranks #2 of 2. See Office Associate across all of Maine →
Median total compensation for comparable Office Associateroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Office Associate I/Department of Public Safety
Source-specific fields
Beth Dawson works as a Office Associate I for Department of Public Safety. Beth earned $23,460 in 2024.