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title: "Average Salary in Portland, ME"
description: "Mean $70,020, median $56,960 in the Portland metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/average-salary/portland-me"
last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Portland, ME

Portland-South Portland, ME metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $70,020, median $56,960 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 288,480 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $55,920.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $36,100 |
| 25th | $43,350 |
| 50th | $56,960 |
| 75th | $79,880 |
| 90th | $112,760 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 101.9 |
| Housing (rents) | 105.2 |
| Goods | 97.2 |
| Utilities | 134.6 |
| Other services | 103.2 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician): $235,560
- [Chief Executive](https://nuecareer.com/careers/chief-executive): $233,110
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor): $195,790
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $171,350
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $162,140
- [Law Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/law-teacher-postsecondary): $161,170
- [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager): $159,790
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $159,790
- [Natural Sciences Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/natural-sciences-manager): $157,660
- [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager): $155,790

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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