Biologist I

Across all employers in Maine, the median wage for Biological Scientists, All Other — about 340 people — is $104,570. Department of Environmental Protection pays a median base salary of $74,776 for this role, 28% below that figure — about the 15th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 22 of 23 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 Environmental Protection is $97,024, 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.

Biologist I is held in 3 Maine departments. In Department of Environmental Protection, the median of $78,413 ranks #1 of 3.

This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In Maine, the median of $77,999 ranks #2 of 4. See Biologist across all of Maine →