Maine / Department of Environmental Protection / Environmental Engineer
Job-title file
Design, analyze, and oversee technical systems or infrastructure, ensuring they meet specifications and codes.
11 employees hold this title in Department of Environmental Protection. Median total compensation for the role is $87,517, above the department median of $77,423.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 11 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 Environmental Engineers — about 220 people — is $93,930. Department of Environmental Protection pays a median base salary of $71,202 for this role, 24% below that figure — about the 14th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Environmental Engineers across every employer in Maine, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Environmental Protection’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Environmental Engineers — about 38,340 people — is $107,110. Department of Environmental Protection’s median base salary is 34% below that national figure, about the 11th 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 7 of 11 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 Environmental Protection is $87,517, 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
Environmental Engineer is held in 2 Maine departments. In Department of Environmental Protection, the median of $87,517 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Environmental Engineer role in other Mainedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 12 jurisdictions. In Maine, the median of $65,199 ranks #10 of 12. See Environmental Engineer across all of Maine →
Median total compensation for comparable Environmental Engineerroles 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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Environmental Engineer/Department of Environmental Protection
Source-specific fields
At Department of Environmental Protection, Lisa Higgins serves as a Environmental Engineer. Their 2022 pay totaled $59,220.