Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,836
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$14,774
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,546
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
$79,610
Kept after tax
$64,836
Worth in national money
$61,546
State rank
24
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays this job around $79,610 at the midpoint, 24 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 140 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $79,610, tax leaves $64,836 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $61,546 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $80,520, since top earners drag the number up.
- For aircraft mechanics and service technicians the New Hampshire median is $79,610, ranking 24 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 140 of 488 in New Hampshire places aircraft mechanics and service technicians 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, $64,836 remains from the New Hampshire median of $79,610 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $61,546 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $80,520 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,910 |
| This salary | $79,610 |
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 | $64,836 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,836 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,174 |
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 | $79,610 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,148 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $79,610 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $59,560 and the ninetieth is $99,910 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $64,836 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $79,610. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 140 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $61,546 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 140.
- The New Hampshire median of $79,610 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $59,560 to $99,910. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $64,836, from $79,610, assumes a single New Hampshire filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 140 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 24 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $61,546, worked from $79,610, 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 140 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $59,560 at the bottom tenth to $99,910 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $61,546 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $64,836 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($59,560 to $99,910) 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 $61,546 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 $64,836 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.