Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,324
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,126
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,075
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
$52,450
Kept after tax
$44,324
Worth in national money
$42,075
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays this job a middle wage of $52,450, ranking 15 of 51 states and sitting about 3.51% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 321.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $52,450 the take-home is $44,324; in national-average money that behaves like $42,075. The average comes to $53,520, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire's median for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks is $52,450, about 3.51% above the national figure and 15 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks sits at 321 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in New Hampshire, on $52,450, is $44,324; deflated by the state's price level, $42,075. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $53,520 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,260 |
| This salary | $52,450 |
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 | $44,324 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,324 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,537 |
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 | $52,450 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,278 |
| 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 bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in New Hampshire earn under $52,450 and half over. The published range runs $36,400 at the tenth percentile to $72,260 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $44,324, from $52,450, 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 321 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $42,075, the adjusted value of that $52,450 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 321 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,400 to $72,260; 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.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,324 from $52,450. 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 321 of 488 locally.
- This $42,075 adjusted figure, worked from $52,450, 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 321 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 321 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,400 at the tenth percentile, $72,260 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 $42,075 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $44,324 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?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,400 to $72,260) 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 $42,075 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 $44,324 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.