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Maine · tax year 2026

Does Maine tax tips and overtime?

Neither deduction reduces your state tax.

Maine taxes federal AGI at 5.8%, 6.75% and 7.15%, less a $15,700 standard deduction for a single filer and $5,300 per person in exemptions. The deduction starts shrinking above $102,250 and is gone by $177,250. Neither federal deduction reduces Maine tax: Maine is tied to the federal code as it stood on 31 December 2024, and the provisions it did adopt early do not include tips or overtime.

What it means on a real paycheck

Take a single filer earning $50,000 a year, $8,000 of it in tips. Against the same person with no tips to declare, the federal deduction is worth $960.

In Maine it is worth nothing extra. The state bill is identical either way, so $960 is the whole of it.

How Maine works out the tax

Maine charges graduated rates from 5.8% up to 9.15%, across four bands, after a standard deduction that starts at $15,700 for a single filer and shrinks as you earn more and an exemption of $5,300 a person. It begins from your federal adjusted gross income and applies its own reliefs from there.

Worth knowing about Maine

The standard deduction runs out

It shrinks as income rises and is gone completely above $177,250 for a single filer, so higher earners are taxed on everything.

Your own numbers

Your gross pay before any taxes or deductions.

Married filing separately cannot claim these deductions at all, so it is not offered here.

Traditional, pre-tax. Lowers income tax but not Social Security or Medicare.

Pre-tax cafeteria-plan premiums. These lower income tax and FICA.

Take-home pay per paycheck (26 per year)

$1,903

$49,490 a year after taxes and deductions.

Maine taxes federal AGI at 5.8%, 6.75% and 7.15%, less a $15,700 standard deduction for a single filer and $5,300 per person in exemptions. The deduction starts shrinking above $102,250 and is gone by $177,250. Neither federal deduction reduces Maine tax: Maine is tied to the federal code as it stood on 31 December 2024, and the provisions it did adopt early do not include tips or overtime. See what that costs you →

Where the money goes each year

Gross salary$62,000
Federal income taxTop rate applied: 12%−$5,260
Social Security−$3,844
Medicare−$899
State income tax (ME)Graduated brackets on $41,000 of state taxable income−$2,507
Take-home pay$49,490

Per paycheck

Gross$2,385
Taxes withheld−$481
Net$1,903

Estimate for tax year 2026 assuming the standard deduction, no dependents or credits, and even pay across the year. Your employer withholds using your Form W-4, so an individual paycheck can differ. Effective total tax rate: 20.18%. Not tax advice.

Where these figures come from

Maine’s rates and reliefs here were taken from Maine’s own publication and last checked on 2026-08-02. A state appears in this calculator only once its figures have been read off that state’s own paperwork and covered by tests — never estimated, and never copied from another site.

Figures on this page are for tax year 2026 and were last checked against the primary sources on 2026-07-31. See our sources. This is an estimate, not tax advice.

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