Carpet Installers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,890
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,710
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,105
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
$65,600
Kept after tax
$54,890
Worth in national money
$52,105
State rank
6
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for carpet installers. The middle earner takes $65,600, which ranks 6 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 30.31% above the national middle.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 208 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $65,600 the take-home is $54,890. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $52,105 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $66,460, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Hampshire ranks 6 of 45 states publishing a median for carpet installers, at $65,600 — about 30.31% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Carpet installers ranks 208 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $54,890 for carpet installers, from $65,600. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $52,105. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $66,460 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Carpet Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $89,490 |
| This salary | $65,600 |
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 | $54,890 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,890 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,381 |
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 | $65,600 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,298 |
| 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 $65,600. The published range is $50,720 up to $89,490, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $54,890 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $65,600. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 208 of 488.
- Two cautions on $52,105, the adjusted value of that $65,600 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 208 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for carpet installers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $50,720 to $89,490. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $54,890, from $65,600, assumes a single New Hampshire filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 208 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 45 for it.
- This $52,105 adjusted figure, worked from $65,600, 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 208 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 208 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $50,720 and the top tenth $89,490, so most people doing this work in New Hampshire sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $52,105 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $54,890 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($50,720 to $89,490) 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 $52,105 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 $54,890 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.