Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,603
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,417
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,086
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
$59,020
Kept after tax
$49,603
Worth in national money
$47,086
State rank
8
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $59,020, putting the state 8 of 51 — about 16.59% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 275 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 $59,020 the take-home is $49,603; in national-average money that behaves like $47,086. The average comes to $60,690, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For automotive service technicians and mechanics, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $59,020, ranking 8 of 51 and running about 16.59% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Automotive service technicians and mechanics ranks 275 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 service technicians and mechanics in New Hampshire, on $59,020, is $49,603; deflated by the state's price level, $47,086. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $60,690 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,250 |
| This salary | $59,020 |
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 | $49,603 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,603 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,959 |
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 | $59,020 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,788 |
| 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 $59,020. The published range is $38,310 up to $82,250, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $49,603, from $59,020, 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 275 of 488 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $47,086 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 275.
- Reported values are medians; for automotive service technicians and mechanics in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,310 to $82,250. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $49,603 from $59,020. 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 275 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $47,086, worked from $59,020, 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 275 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $38,310, the highest tenth $82,250, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $47,086 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $49,603 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?
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,310) and the ninetieth ($82,250) 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 $47,086 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 $49,603 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.