Compared with the local labor market
Legislative Aide pay vs. Maine
Across all employers in Maine, the median wage for Legal Support Workers, All Other is $72,110. Senate/House/Committee Employees pays a median base salary of $69,152 for this role, 4% below that figure — about the 42nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Senate/House/Committee Employees sits in the local pay range
$52,580
$62,790
$72,110
$79,370
$113,960
Senate/House/Committee Employees median · $69,152
The bar is the range of annual wages for Legal Support Workers, All Other across every employer in Maine, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Senate/House/Committee Employees’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Legal Support Workers, All Other — about 46,760 people — is $72,110. Senate/House/Committee Employees’s median base salary is 4% below that national figure, about the 46th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$43,800
$54,940
$72,110
$109,360
$179,960
Senate/House/Committee Employees median · $69,152
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 27 of 44 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 Senate/House/Committee Employees is $70,636, 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
Legislative Aide beyond Maine
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In Maine, the median of $70,636 ranks #2 of 6. See Legislative Aide across all of Maine →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Legislative Aideroles 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.