Maine / Department of Transportation / Assistant Transportation Engineer
Job-title file
Design, analyze, and oversee technical systems or infrastructure, ensuring they meet specifications and codes.
91 employees hold this title in Department of Transportation. Median total compensation for the role is $65,069, below the department median of $75,429.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 91 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in Maine, the median wage for Civil Engineers — about 1,240 people — is $97,820. Department of Transportation pays a median base salary of $66,905 for this role, 32% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Civil Engineers across every employer in Maine, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Transportation’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Civil Engineers — about 367,840 people — is $100,840. Department of Transportation’s median base salary is 34% below that national figure, below the 10th 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 62 of 91 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 Transportation is $65,069, 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.
Record list
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Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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Carlton Peabody is a Assistant Transportation Engineer at Department of Transportation. 2022 total compensation came to $6,182.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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Christopher Desmond is a Assistant Transportation Engineer at Department of Transportation. 2023 total compensation came to $5,440.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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Simone Zimmerman holds the role of Assistant Transportation Engineer at Department of Transportation. In 2023, their total compensation was $4,524.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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Lyric Deagle works as a Assistant Transportation Engineer for Department of Transportation. Lyric earned $3,245 in 2024.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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At Department of Transportation, Alicia Litchfield serves as a Assistant Transportation Engineer. Their 2023 pay totaled $3,144.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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Matthew Kelly is a Assistant Transportation Engineer at Department of Transportation. 2023 total compensation came to $3,042.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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At Department of Transportation, Jacob Janes serves as a Assistant Transportation Engineer. Their 2024 pay totaled $2,959.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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Brian Snell holds the role of Assistant Transportation Engineer at Department of Transportation. In 2023, their total compensation was $2,852.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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At Department of Transportation, Xingwu Luo serves as a Assistant Transportation Engineer. Their 2023 pay totaled $1,584.
Assistant Transportation Engineer/Department of Transportation
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At Department of Transportation, Christoph Illerhaus serves as a Assistant Transportation Engineer. Their 2022 pay totaled $230.
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Natasha Edman is a Assistant Transportation Engineer at Department of Transportation. 2022 total compensation came to $0.