Mechatronics technician salary in Maine (2026)

How much does a mechatronics technician make in Maine?

The story in Maine is compression, not upside. Half the field earns between $68,800 and $83,260, one of the narrowest middle-50% bands you will see for this job in any state. The jump from the median ($82,510) to the 75th percentile ($83,260) is under $800, which tells you that once you reach the middle of the pay scale here, moving up further is slow. The real spread is at the bottom: the 10th percentile sits at $52,310, so a new technician can start more than $30,000 below where the experienced core lands.

BLS does not publish a total employment count, an employment-per-thousand figure, or a location quotient for Maine, which is the agency's way of saying the occupation is too thin here to model those numbers reliably. So treat the high median with some care. It reflects a small pool of mostly senior, well-established technicians at a handful of large plants, not a deep, competitive market bidding wages up. The top decile coming in $11,700 below the national top decile reinforces that: Maine has few of the high-ceiling automation roles that push pay past six figures elsewhere.

Maine mechatronics salary: BLS vs Salary.com vs Indeed

The three sources disagree by a lot here, more than in most states. BLS puts the median at $82,510. Salary.com models an average of $57,243 as of July 2026. Indeed's average of $32.43 an hour annualizes to about $67,454. That is a $25,000 spread between the high and low estimate. BLS surveys actual Maine employers and their payrolls, so it captures the senior technicians at real plants. Salary.com builds its number from modelled HR data and national job-title matching, which tends to pull toward a generic average and misses how few, senior, and well-paid Maine's actual pool is. Indeed reflects live job postings, which skew toward the entry and mid rates employers advertise to fill openings.

One flag on Indeed: the posting does not report how many salaries the $32.43 average rests on, so treat it as directional only. When you negotiate, anchor to the BLS median of $82,510 if you are experienced and applying at an established Maine plant, and use the BLS 25th percentile of $68,800 as a realistic early-career floor. Salary.com's $57,243 is the number to be ready to push back on, since it undershoots what Maine's real employers pay.

Job outlook for mechatronics technicians in Maine

Maine is one of the few states projecting this occupation to shrink. The state labor agency models a 7.5% decline from 2024 to 2034, dropping from about 110 jobs to 100, against a national projection of a slight 0.7% gain. With roughly 10 openings a year projected statewide, almost every opening you see will come from a technician retiring or leaving the field, not from a plant adding headcount. That is normal for a small, mature manufacturing base, but it means you should not count on the market growing under you. You can check the underlying numbers at the Maine Center for Workforce Research and Information.

The practical read: jobs exist and pay well, but they are few and they turn over slowly. Being ready to move to wherever a large employer has an opening matters more in Maine than in a state with hundreds of these positions.

How Maine compares with nearby states

Inside the Northeast, Maine's $82,510 median actually leads the region, edging out Connecticut at $81,860 (about 140 technicians employed there) and sitting well above New Hampshire at $75,780 (roughly 80 employed). The catch is scale: Connecticut and Massachusetts have far more of these jobs, so a technician there has more employers to negotiate against even at a similar or lower median. Maine wins on posted pay but not on depth of opportunity.

Who hires mechatronics technicians in Maine

Maine's demand for mechatronics and electromechanical technicians clusters at a few large plants. In South Portland, Texas Instruments and Diodes Inc. run semiconductor fabs that hire equipment maintenance technicians and manufacturing maintenance specialists to keep fab tools running. Bath Iron Works, the General Dynamics shipyard in Bath, runs apprenticeship-backed manufacturing production technician roles, several tied to Southern Maine Community College. Pratt & Whitney's North Berwick site hires mechanics and manufacturing technicians for its aerospace parts operation.

Beyond those, IDEXX Laboratories in Westbrook builds diagnostic instruments and hires instrument and automation technicians, and Sappi North America runs pulp and paper mills that need maintenance and controls technicians on the floor. That mix (semiconductor, defense shipbuilding, aerospace, diagnostics, and paper) is where most of Maine's well-paid technician roles sit.

How to earn more as a mechatronics technician in Maine

Stack the certifications the fabs and mills actually screen for

Maine's best-paying technician seats are in semiconductor fabs, aerospace, and paper mills, and those employers filter on specific skills: PLC programming, 480V three-phase troubleshooting, and vacuum or fab-tool maintenance. A targeted certification stack in PLCs and industrial automation is what separates the technicians clustered near the $82,510 median from the ones stuck at the $68,800 quartile.

Target the high-pay industries, not just any opening

With only about 10 openings a year statewide, which employer you land at matters more than in a bigger market. The South Portland semiconductor fabs (Texas Instruments, Diodes) and Bath Iron Works pay for specialized equipment skills, while general facility maintenance roles sit lower. Aim your applications at the fab and shipyard side rather than taking the first maintenance job that opens.

Step up to the controls engineer track

Because Maine's technician pay is compressed at the top ($98,190 at the 90th percentile, below the national ceiling), the clearest way past it is the engineering side. Moving into a controls or automation engineer role clears the technician band entirely. See how the jump works in our controls engineer guide and the mechatronics salary guide.

Sources & methodology

Figures on this page come from four independent datasets, retrieved 2026-07-14. Where they disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than averaged away; the source-comparison section explains why each number differs.

• BLS OEWS, SOC 17-3024, May 2025 national and state estimates (state file oesm25st.zip). Employer-reported, the authoritative baseline.
• Salary.com, Mechatronics Technician in Maine, as of July 01, 2026. HR-reported and modelled averages.
• Indeed, mechatronics technician salaries in Maine. Posting-derived.
• Projections Central, 2024–2034 state occupational projections produced by Maine's labor market agency (state source).
• Top Manufacturing Companies in Maine (IndustrySelect)
• Industrial Automation Jobs in Maine (Indeed)