Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,742
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$21,478
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,645
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
$102,220
Kept after tax
$80,742
Worth in national money
$76,645
State rank
8
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $102,220, putting the state 8 of 48 — about 9.62% ahead of the national figure.
- Within New Hampshire this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 62 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $102,220, tax leaves $80,742 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $76,645 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $121,450, since top earners drag the number up.
- For chemistry teachers, postsecondary, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $102,220, ranking 8 of 48 and running about 9.62% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation New Hampshire publishes a median for, chemistry teachers, postsecondary sits 62 of 488 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After tax, $80,742 remains from the New Hampshire median of $102,220 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $76,645 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $121,450 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $212,020 |
| This salary | $102,220 |
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 | $80,742 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,742 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,444 |
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 | $102,220 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,901 |
| 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 $102,220. The published range is $65,550 up to $212,020, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $80,742 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $102,220. 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 62 of 488.
- Two cautions on $76,645, the adjusted value of that $102,220 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 62 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for chemistry teachers, postsecondary in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $65,550 to $212,020. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $80,742, from $102,220, 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 62 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 48 for it.
- This $76,645 adjusted figure, worked from $102,220, 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 62 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 62 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $121,450 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $65,550 and the top tenth $212,020 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $76,645 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $80,742 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. 48 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 $121,450. 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 ($65,550) and the ninetieth ($212,020) 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 $76,645 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 $80,742 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.