Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,648
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,162
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,977
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
$62,810
Kept after tax
$52,648
Worth in national money
$49,977
State rank
7
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $62,810, which ranks 7 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 19.41% above the national middle.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 236 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $62,810 the take-home is $52,648. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $49,977 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $67,840, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Hampshire ranks 7 of 45 states publishing a median for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers, at $62,810 — about 19.41% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers ranks 236 of 488 occupations in New Hampshire by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $52,648 for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers, from $62,810. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $49,977. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $67,840 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,810 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,450 |
| This salary | $62,810 |
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 | $52,648 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,648 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,202 |
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 | $62,810 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,082 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,810 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,090 and the ninetieth is $99,450 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $52,648, from $62,810, 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 236 of 488 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $49,977, the adjusted value of that $62,810 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 236 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $62,810 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,090 to $99,450. 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 $52,648 from $62,810. 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 236 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $49,977 — the adjusted value of that $62,810 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 236 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 $67,840 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $49,090, the highest tenth $99,450, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $49,977 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $52,648 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $67,840. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($49,090) and the ninetieth ($99,450) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $49,977 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 $52,648 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.