Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,847
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$16,043
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,404
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
$83,890
Kept after tax
$67,847
Worth in national money
$64,404
State rank
10
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $83,890, putting the state 10 of 51 — about 7.55% 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 109 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $83,890 the take-home is $67,847. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $64,404 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $87,810, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $83,890, ranking 10 of 51 and running about 7.55% 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, claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators sits 109 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $67,847 for claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators, from $83,890. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $64,404. ⚠️ 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 $87,810 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $120,430 |
| This salary | $83,890 |
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 | $67,847 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,847 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,415 |
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 | $83,890 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,480 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $83,890 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $59,580 and the ninetieth is $120,430 — 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 $67,847, worked from $83,890. 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 109 of 488.
- Two cautions on $64,404, the adjusted value of that $83,890 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 109 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $83,890 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $59,580 to $120,430. 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 $67,847, on $83,890 for work ranking 109 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 109 of 488 in the state.
- This $64,404 adjusted figure, worked from $83,890, 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 109 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 109 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $87,810, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $59,580 and the top tenth $120,430 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New Hampshire run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $64,404 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $67,847 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $87,810. 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 ($59,580) and the ninetieth ($120,430) 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 $64,404 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 $67,847 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.