Maine / Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife / Game Warden
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
104 employees hold this title in Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. Median total compensation for the role is $107,328, above the department median of $89,994.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 104 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 Fish and Game Wardens — about 190 people — is $73,260. Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife pays a median base salary of $76,689 for this role, 5% above that figure — about the 78th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Fish and Game Wardens across every employer in Maine, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Fish and Game Wardens — about 5,770 people — is $74,060. Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife’s median base salary is 4% above that national figure, about the 54th 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 83 of 104 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 Inland Fisheries & Wildlife is $107,328, 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 jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In Maine, the median of $107,328 ranks #1 of 4. See Game Warden across all of Maine →
Median total compensation for comparable Game Wardenroles 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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Game Warden/Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
Source-specific fields
Sean Higgins is a Game Warden at Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. 2024 total compensation came to $65,425.
Game Warden/Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
Source-specific fields
Christopher Dyer is a Game Warden at Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. 2022 total compensation came to $63,408.