Bill and Account Collectors in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,896
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$6,554
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,973
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
$44,450
Kept after tax
$37,896
Worth in national money
$35,973
State rank
38
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Hampshire pays bill and account collectors a middle wage of $44,450, 38 of 51 states and about 5.49% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, bill and account collectors ranks 412. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $44,450, tax leaves $37,896 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $35,973 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $48,140, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire's $44,450 median for bill and account collectors places it 38 of 51 states, about 5.49% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, bill and account collectors ranks 412 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, $37,896 remains from the New Hampshire median of $44,450 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $35,973 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $48,140 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Bill and Account Collectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,210 |
| This salary | $44,450 |
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 | $37,896 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,896 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,024 |
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 | $44,450 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,658 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $44,450 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,170 and the ninetieth is $65,210 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $37,896, from $44,450, 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 412 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 $35,973 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 412.
- The New Hampshire median of $44,450 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,170 to $65,210. 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 $37,896 from $44,450. 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 412 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $35,973, worked from $44,450, 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 412 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $48,140, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,170 at the bottom tenth to $65,210 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $35,973 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $37,896 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?
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 $48,140. 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 ($37,170 to $65,210) 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 $35,973 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 $37,896 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.