Compared with the local labor market
Senior Auditor pay vs. Maine
Across all employers in Maine, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 3,860 people — is $77,480. Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs pays a median base salary of $84,247 for this role, 9% above that figure — about the 58th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs sits in the local pay range
$55,640
$63,920
$77,480
$98,700
$125,130
Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs median · $84,247
The bar is the range of annual wages for Accountants and Auditors 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 Accountants and Auditors — about 1,449,500 people — is $83,680. Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs’s median base salary is in line withthat national figure, about the 51st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$56,020
$67,020
$83,680
$109,810
$144,090
Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs median · $84,247
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 6 of 9 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 $93,459, 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
Senior Auditor is held in 3 Maine departments. In Department of Health&Human Services Dhhs, the median of $93,459 ranks #1 of 3.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Senior Auditor role in other Mainedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.