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Maine · 2025 pay

How much do Maine Correctional Center employees make?

$72,212typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025

$58,257 – $80,807what most people earned

Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.

Maine Office of the State Controller publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.

Common jobs: Correctional OfficerCorrectional SergeantCorrectional Care and Treatment Worker

✓ Official data from Maine Office of the State ControllerMatches the agency's latest releasemaine.gov ↗

How is pay spread across workers?

A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.

$58,391

$72,264

$81,198

$160,328

Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers

Typical workerright in the middle

Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers

Highest paidone person

Regular payOvertimeExtra pay

Is pay going up?

Yes. Typical pay went from $46,447 in 2016 to $72,212 in 2025 (+55%).

What changed since 2024

  • +5.6%Typical pay went up from $68,369 to $72,212.
  • −28286 people were paid in 2025, compared with 314 in 2024.
  • +55%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $46,447 to $72,212, while the number of people paid went down from 313 to 286.

The next update is expected in early 2027.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Maine Correctional Center

10years of
official data
2016–2025
Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay$62,244
Overtime$10,019
Extra pay$0
Total for the year$72,264

Average of the 15 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.

Official source: Maine Office of the State Controller (Department of Administrative and Financial Services), maine.gov ↗
Matches the agency's latest release

Worth knowing about pay at Maine Correctional Center

What stands out in the payroll data, checked against the rest of our data before it is shown.

  • +50%

    Since 2016, total pay at Maine Correctional Center went up 50% while the number of people paid went down 9%.

    Counts everyone paid during each year. Not adjusted for inflation.

  • 3 of 10

    For 3 of the 10 highest paid at Maine Correctional Center, overtime was more than a third of their pay (Correctional Officer, Correctional Sergeant, Chief Correctional Firearms Instructor).

    On regular pay alone, 3 of them would not have made the top 10.

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.

JobPeopleTypical payMost earnSince 2024
Correctional Officer168$68,808$45k – $76k▲ 5.6%
Correctional Sergeant19$87,473$81k – $93k▲ 3.8%
Correctional Care and Treatment Worker14$70,670$58k – $73knew
Correctional Trade Instructor10$75,249$72k – $80knew
Correctional Captain9$103,688$94k – $105k▲ 11.4%

How many people earn what

  • Under $10k14
  • $10k – $30k15
  • $30k – $50k24
  • $50k – $70k74
  • $70k – $90k119
  • $90k – $110k28
  • $110k – $150k9
  • $150k or more3

Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.

Common questions

How much does a Maine Correctional Center employee make?

The typical employee was paid $72,212 in 2025: half of the 286 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $58,257 and $80,807.

Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?

No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (84.6% of all pay), overtime (15.4%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (0.0%).

Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?

From Maine Office of the State Controller (Department of Administrative and Financial Services) (maine.gov). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the next update is expected in early 2027.

"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 1 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals