Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,828
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$15,192
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,488
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
$81,020
Kept after tax
$65,828
Worth in national money
$62,488
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $81,020, putting the state 3 of 51 — about 28.75% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 129.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $81,020, tax leaves $65,828 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $62,488 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $74,530.
- For clinical laboratory technologists and technicians, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $81,020, ranking 3 of 51 and running about 28.75% 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, clinical laboratory technologists and technicians sits at 129 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- After tax, $65,828 remains from the New Hampshire median of $81,020 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $62,488 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $74,530 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,930 |
| This salary | $81,020 |
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 | $65,828 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,828 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,254 |
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 | $81,020 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,257 |
| 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 $81,020. The published range is $42,090 up to $99,930, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $65,828 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $81,020. 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 129 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $62,488, the adjusted value of that $81,020 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 129 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,090 to $99,930. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $65,828, from $81,020, 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 129 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $62,488 — the adjusted value of that $81,020 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 129 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 $74,530 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $42,090 at the bottom tenth to $99,930 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $62,488 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $65,828 of this wage reaches your account, because New Hampshire takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $74,530. 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 ($42,090 to $99,930) 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 $62,488 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 $65,828 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.