Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,958
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,482
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,220
New Hampshire costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Hampshire — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$64,440
Kept after tax
$53,958
Worth in national money
$51,220
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $64,440, putting the state 13 of 50 — about 4.71% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 219 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $64,440, tax leaves $53,958 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $51,220 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $61,550.
- For adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $64,440, ranking 13 of 50 and running about 4.71% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 219 of 488 in New Hampshire places adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $53,958 remains from the New Hampshire median of $64,440 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $51,220 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $61,550 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,980 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,480 |
| This salary | $64,440 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New Hampshire | $53,958 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,958 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,306 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $64,440 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,208 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $64,440 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $52,980 and the ninetieth is $72,480 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $53,958, from $64,440, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 219 of 488 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $51,220 uses one figure for the whole of New Hampshire. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 219.
- The New Hampshire median of $64,440 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $52,980 to $72,480. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $53,958 from $64,440. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 219 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $51,220, worked from $64,440, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Hampshire address, on work sitting at 219 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $61,550 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $52,980 at the bottom tenth to $72,480 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New Hampshire run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $51,220 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $53,958 of this wage reaches your account, because New Hampshire takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in New Hampshire is $61,550. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($52,980 to $72,480) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New Hampshire rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Hampshire's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $51,220 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
New Hampshire levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $53,958 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.