Automotive Body and Related Repairers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,597
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,193
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,334
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
$52,790
Kept after tax
$44,597
Worth in national money
$42,334
State rank
25
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 25 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $52,790. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 318 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $52,790 the take-home is $44,597; in national-average money that behaves like $42,334. The average comes to $57,520, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 25 of 51 for automotive body and related repairers at $52,790. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Automotive body and related repairers ranks 318 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.
- Take-home for automotive body and related repairers in New Hampshire, on $52,790, is $44,597; deflated by the state's price level, $42,334. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $57,520 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,880 |
| This salary | $52,790 |
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 | $44,597 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,597 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,559 |
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 | $52,790 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,305 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Hampshire earn less than $52,790. The published range is $43,910 up to $78,880, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $44,597, worked from $52,790. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 318 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $42,334, the adjusted value of that $52,790 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 318 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for automotive body and related repairers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,910 to $78,880. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $44,597, on $52,790 for work ranking 318 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 318 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $42,334 — the adjusted value of that $52,790 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 318 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 $57,520, 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 — $43,910 at the tenth percentile, $78,880 at the ninetieth.
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 $42,334 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $44,597 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $57,520. 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 ($43,910 to $78,880) 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 $42,334 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 $44,597 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.