Maine / Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs / Office Specialist II
Job-title file
Office Specialist II
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
8 employees hold this title in Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs. Median total compensation for the role is $58,688, below the department median of $69,418.
- Employees
- 8
- Total payroll
- $364K
- Role median
- $58,688
- Agency median
- $69,418
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
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
Office Specialist II pay vs. Maine
Across all employers in Maine, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 11,260 people — is $45,300. Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs pays a median base salary of $50,107 for this role, 11% above that figure — about the 73rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs sits in the local pay range
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 Health&Human Services Dhhs’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 Health&Human Services Dhhs’s median base salary is 11% above that national figure, about the 64th 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 17 of 28 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 Health&Human Services Dhhs is $54,780, 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
This role across Maine
Office Specialist II is held in 24 Maine departments. In Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs, the median of $58,688 ranks #10 of 24.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Office Specialist II role in other Mainedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Office Specialist beyond Maine
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In Maine, the median of $44,042 ranks #3 of 5. See Office Specialist across all of Maine →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Office Specialistroles 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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