Overtime Pay Calculator — Maine (2026)
Overtime in Maine starts with the federal FLSA floor: 1.5× your regular rate for every hour beyond 40 in a workweek. Some states add daily overtime or double-time rules on top. This calculator shows gross overtime pay and what survives federal, FICA and Maine taxation in 2026. Maine uses a progressive income tax with 3 brackets running from 5.80% up to 7.15%, applied after a state standard deduction of $16,100.
Maine Overtime Pay Calculator
Your base pay per hour.
Hours beyond 40 in the workweek.
Overtime rules that apply in Maine
Maine follows the federal weekly standard: overtime is owed after 40 hours in a workweek, with no general daily overtime requirement.
The "regular rate" is not just your base hourly wage — non-discretionary bonuses, shift differentials and commissions must be folded in before multiplying by 1.5, which raises the true overtime rate for many tourism workers around Portland.
Is overtime taxed more in Maine?
No — overtime is ordinary wages. It can feel over-taxed because per-period withholding tables annualize a big check as if every week looked like that, temporarily withholding at a higher rate that you recover at filing.
The Maine layer applies to overtime exactly as to base pay, at rates up to 7.15%.
Exempt vs non-exempt in Maine
Salaried does not mean exempt. To be exempt from overtime a worker must clear both a salary threshold and a duties test; misclassification is one of the most common wage claims filed in Maine.
Cost of living in Maine sits 10% above the national average (index 110), median household income is $71,773, and a one-bedroom apartment in Portland rents for roughly $1,700 a month.
Local and payroll taxes Maine adds on top
Maine Paid Family and Medical Leave withholds about 0.5% of wages from employees. That deduction sits outside the federal and state income tax lines, so build it into your own budget on top of the numbers above.
Maine has no separate city or county income tax, so the state figure above is the full sub-federal income tax you pay.
Overtime hours carry exactly the same local withholding as regular Maine hours; the extra pay is taxed at your marginal rates, not at a special penalty rate, even though the deduction line looks bigger.
Working across a state line from Maine
Maine has no income-tax reciprocity agreements, so if you live here and work across a state line you generally file a nonresident return in the work state and claim a credit at home to avoid double taxation.
Remote and hybrid work complicates this further: most states tax income where the work is physically performed, so a Portland resident spending part of the year at a client site in New Hampshire may owe a nonresident return there. Keep a day-count log if you split time between states.
The rest of your Maine tax bill
Maine charges a 5.5% state sales tax, homeowners pay an average effective property tax of 1.24% of market value, and the minimum wage in force during 2026 is $15.10 an hour.
5.5% statewide with no local sales tax.
Income tax is only one part of a state's take. Maine recovers revenue through sales and property tax as well, which is why headline income tax rates alone are a poor guide to how far a salary really goes. Maine exempts Social Security and allows a pension deduction indexed near $30,000 per person.
Maine vs New Hampshire on the same salary
On a $75,000 salary, a single filer keeps about $57,864 a year in Maine against roughly $61,593 in New Hampshire — a difference of $3,728, or $311 a month.
Effective combined rates are 22.8% in Maine and 17.9% in New Hampshire. Set that gap against living costs: index 110 here versus 109 there, with property tax at 1.24% and 1.93% respectively.
Maine income tax brackets 2026 (single filer)
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 – $26,050 | 5.80% |
| $26,050 – $61,600 | 6.75% |
| $61,600 and up | 7.15% |