Chemists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,215
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$20,835
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,196
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
$100,050
Kept after tax
$79,215
Worth in national money
$75,196
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for chemists is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $100,050, putting the state 12 of 51 — about 9.66% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, chemists comes in at 75 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $100,050 the take-home is $79,215; in national-average money that behaves like $75,196. The average lands at $99,570, below the middle of the range.
- For chemists, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $100,050, ranking 12 of 51 and running about 9.66% 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.
- Chemists ranks 75 of 488 occupations by median in New Hampshire, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for chemists in New Hampshire, on $100,050, is $79,215; deflated by the state's price level, $75,196. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $99,570 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
Compare this career across states
Choose your filing status and local taxes, compare pay, and keep a shortlist.Compare wage and personal-pay outcomes by state, with selected resident local taxes and saved career choices.
Pay band: Chemists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $100,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $133,960 |
| This salary | $100,050 |
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 | $79,215 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,215 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,322 |
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 | $100,050 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,733 |
| 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 chemists in New Hampshire earn under $100,050 and half over. The published range runs $58,260 at the tenth percentile to $133,960 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $79,215, from $100,050, 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 75 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $75,196, the adjusted value of that $100,050 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 75 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for chemists in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $58,260 to $133,960; 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 $79,215 from $100,050. 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 75 of 488 locally.
- This $75,196 adjusted figure, worked from $100,050, 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 75 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 75 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $58,260 at the bottom tenth to $133,960 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 $75,196 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $79,215 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($58,260) and the ninetieth ($133,960) 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 $75,196 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 $79,215 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.