Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,344
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,686
14.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,602
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
$40,030
Kept after tax
$34,344
Worth in national money
$32,602
State rank
7
of 51 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 $40,030, which ranks 7 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 12.22% above the national middle.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 434. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $40,030, tax leaves $34,344 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $32,602 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $42,940, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire ranks 7 of 51 states publishing a median for automotive and watercraft service attendants, at $40,030 — about 12.22% 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.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, automotive and watercraft service attendants ranks 434 of 488, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- After tax, $34,344 remains from the New Hampshire median of $40,030 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $32,602 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $42,940 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,030 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,180 |
| This salary | $40,030 |
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 | $34,344 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,344 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,741 |
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 | $40,030 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,315 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of automotive and watercraft service attendants in New Hampshire earn under $40,030 and half over. The published range runs $35,550 at the tenth percentile to $58,180 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,344 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $40,030. 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 434 of 488.
- Two cautions on $32,602, the adjusted value of that $40,030 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 434 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for automotive and watercraft service attendants in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,550 to $58,180; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $34,344, from $40,030, 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 434 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 51 for it.
- This $32,602 adjusted figure, worked from $40,030, 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 434 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 434 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 $42,940 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 $35,550 at the bottom tenth to $58,180 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 $32,602 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $34,344 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $42,940. 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 ($35,550 to $58,180) 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 $32,602 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 $34,344 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.