Broadcast Technicians in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,919
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$15,231
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,574
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
$81,150
Kept after tax
$65,919
Worth in national money
$62,574
State rank
2
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for broadcast technicians is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $81,150, putting the state 2 of 47 — about 36.23% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 127.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $81,150, tax leaves $65,919 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $62,574 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $87,240, since top earners drag the number up.
- For broadcast technicians, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $81,150, ranking 2 of 47 and running about 36.23% 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, broadcast technicians sits at 127 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.
- After tax, $65,919 remains from the New Hampshire median of $81,150 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $62,574 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $87,240 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Broadcast Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $61,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $132,880 |
| This salary | $81,150 |
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 | $65,919 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,919 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,261 |
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 | $81,150 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,267 |
| 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 broadcast technicians in New Hampshire earn under $81,150 and half over. The published range runs $61,350 at the tenth percentile to $132,880 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $65,919, from $81,150, 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 127 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $62,574, the adjusted value of that $81,150 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 127 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for broadcast technicians in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $61,350 to $132,880; 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 $65,919 from $81,150. 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 127 of 488 locally.
- This $62,574 adjusted figure, worked from $81,150, 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 127 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 127 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 $87,240, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $61,350 at the bottom tenth to $132,880 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $62,574 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $65,919 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $87,240. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($61,350) and the ninetieth ($132,880) 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 $62,574 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 $65,919 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.