Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,077
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,333
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,993
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
$48,410
Kept after tax
$41,077
Worth in national money
$38,993
State rank
23
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $48,410, ranking 23 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Measured against other jobs in New Hampshire, this one sits low: 368 of 488 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $48,410 the take-home is $41,077; in national-average money that behaves like $38,993. The average comes to $53,470, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders: a median of $48,410, ranking 23 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders occupies position 368 of 488 in New Hampshire's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Take-home for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in New Hampshire, on $48,410, is $41,077; deflated by the state's price level, $38,993. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $53,470 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,590 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,920 |
| This salary | $48,410 |
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 | $41,077 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,077 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,278 |
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 | $48,410 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,965 |
| 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 $48,410. The published range is $40,590 up to $73,920, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $41,077, worked from $48,410. 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 368 of 488.
- Two cautions on $38,993, the adjusted value of that $48,410 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 368 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $40,590 to $73,920. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $41,077, on $48,410 for work ranking 368 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 368 of 488 in the state.
- This $38,993 adjusted figure, worked from $48,410, 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 368 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 368 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 $53,470 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $40,590 at the tenth percentile, $73,920 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,993 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,077 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 $53,470. 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 ($40,590 to $73,920) 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 $38,993 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 $41,077 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.