Chief Executives in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$126,497
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$42,093
25.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$120,079
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
$168,590
Kept after tax
$126,497
Worth in national money
$120,079
State rank
34
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Hampshire pays chief executives a middle wage of $168,590, 34 of 46 states and about 21.22% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, chief executives comes in at 8 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $168,590 the take-home is $126,497; in national-average money that behaves like $120,079. The average comes to $221,460, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire's $168,590 median for chief executives places it 34 of 46 states, about 21.22% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Chief executives ranks 8 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 chief executives in New Hampshire, on $168,590, is $126,497; deflated by the state's price level, $120,079. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $221,460 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Chief Executives
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $103,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $168,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $397,850 |
| This salary | $168,590 |
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 | $126,497 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $126,497 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,096 |
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 | $168,590 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$14,353 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $168,590 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $103,990 and the ninetieth is $397,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $126,497, from $168,590, 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 8 of 488 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $120,079, the adjusted value of that $168,590 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 8 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $168,590 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $103,990 to $397,850. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $126,497 from $168,590. 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 8 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $120,079 — the adjusted value of that $168,590 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 8 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 $221,460 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $103,990 at the bottom tenth to $397,850 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 $120,079 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $126,497 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 46 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $221,460. 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 ($103,990) and the ninetieth ($397,850) 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 $120,079 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 $126,497 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.