Maine / Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management / Maintenance Mechanic
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
8 employees hold this title in Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. Median total compensation for the role is $45,982, below the department median of $69,015.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 8 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 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 5,820 people — is $49,430. Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management pays a median base salary of $43,328 for this role, 12% below that figure — about the 25th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General across every employer in Maine, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 1,529,700 people — is $49,590. Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management’s median base salary is 13% below that national figure, about the 32nd 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 5 of 8 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management is $45,982, 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
Maintenance Mechanic is held in 6 Maine departments. In Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management, the median of $45,982 ranks #4 of 6.
Median total compensation for the Maintenance Mechanic role in other Mainedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 11 jurisdictions. In Maine, the median of $52,143 ranks #7 of 11. See Maintenance Mechanic across all of Maine →
Median total compensation for comparable Maintenance Mechanic roles 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.
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Record list
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Maintenance Mechanic/Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management
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E Amos Armstrong works as a Maintenance Mechanic for Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. E earned $69,741 in 2024.
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Jeffrey Sawyer holds the role of Maintenance Mechanic at Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. In 2024, their total compensation was $69,248.
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Eric Knudsen works as a Maintenance Mechanic for Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. Eric earned $60,846 in 2024.
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David Spaulding holds the role of Maintenance Mechanic at Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. In 2024, their total compensation was $60,298.
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Travis Neal holds the role of Maintenance Mechanic at Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. In 2024, their total compensation was $31,667.
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Stuart Foster works as a Maintenance Mechanic for Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. Stuart earned $27,783 in 2024.
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Jeffrey Brunelle holds the role of Maintenance Mechanic at Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. In 2023, their total compensation was $6,479.
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Timothy Nickerson works as a Maintenance Mechanic for Department of Defense, Veterans & Emergency Management. Timothy earned $2,226 in 2023.