Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,905
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,535
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,779
New Hampshire costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the bottom tenth 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
$49,440
Kept after tax
$41,905
Worth in national money
$39,779
State rank
42
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $49,440, ranking 42 of 47 states — about 14.82% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 346 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $49,440, tax leaves $41,905 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $39,779 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $53,430, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire ranks 42 of 47 for chemical equipment operators and tenders, with a median of $49,440 — about 14.82% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Position 346 of 488 in New Hampshire places chemical equipment operators and tenders in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $41,905 remains from the New Hampshire median of $49,440 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $39,779 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $53,430 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,880 |
| This salary | $49,440 |
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 | $41,905 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,905 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,344 |
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 | $49,440 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,045 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,440 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,440 and the ninetieth is $58,880 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $41,905, worked from $49,440. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 346 of 488.
- Two cautions on $39,779, the adjusted value of that $49,440 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 346 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $49,440 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,440 to $58,880. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $41,905, on $49,440 for work ranking 346 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 346 of 488 in the state.
- This $39,779 adjusted figure, worked from $49,440, 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 346 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 346 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,430, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $49,440 at the bottom tenth to $58,880 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 $39,779 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,905 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 $53,430. 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 ($49,440 to $58,880) 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 $39,779 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 $41,905 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.