Architectural and Civil Drafters in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,649
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,651
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,876
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
$65,300
Kept after tax
$54,649
Worth in national money
$51,876
State rank
19
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays this job around $65,300 at the midpoint, 19 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 210.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $65,300 the take-home is $54,649; in national-average money that behaves like $51,876. The average comes to $68,940, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For architectural and civil drafters the New Hampshire median is $65,300, ranking 19 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, architectural and civil drafters sits at 210 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for architectural and civil drafters in New Hampshire, on $65,300, is $54,649; deflated by the state's price level, $51,876. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $68,940 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Architectural and Civil Drafters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $90,710 |
| This salary | $65,300 |
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 | $54,649 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,649 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,361 |
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 | $65,300 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,275 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $65,300 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $52,740 and the ninetieth is $90,710 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $54,649 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $65,300. 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 210 of 488.
- Two cautions on $51,876, the adjusted value of that $65,300 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Hampshire. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 210 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $65,300 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $52,740 to $90,710. 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 $54,649, from $65,300, 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 210 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 50 for it.
- This $51,876 adjusted figure, worked from $65,300, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 210 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 210 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $68,940, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $52,740 at the tenth percentile, $90,710 at the ninetieth.
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 $51,876 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $54,649 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.
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 $68,940. 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 ($52,740 to $90,710) 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 $51,876 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 $54,649 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.