Compensation and Benefits Managers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,871
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$32,079
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$99,550
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
$136,950
Kept after tax
$104,871
Worth in national money
$99,550
State rank
20
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 20 of 45 states for this job, with a middle wage of $136,950. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Hampshire. It ranks 23 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $136,950 the take-home is $104,871; in national-average money that behaves like $99,550. The average lands at $136,930, below the middle of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 20 of 45 for compensation and benefits managers at $136,950. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Within New Hampshire, compensation and benefits managers ranks 23 of 488 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for compensation and benefits managers in New Hampshire, on $136,950, is $104,871; deflated by the state's price level, $99,550. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $136,930 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Compensation and Benefits Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $90,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $136,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $200,200 |
| This salary | $136,950 |
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 | $104,871 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $104,871 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,370 |
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 | $136,950 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,899 |
| 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 $136,950. The published range is $90,830 up to $200,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $104,871 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $136,950. 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 23 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 $99,550, the adjusted value of that $136,950 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 23 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for compensation and benefits managers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $90,830 to $200,200. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $104,871, from $136,950, 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 23 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 45 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $99,550 — the adjusted value of that $136,950 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 23 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $90,830 and the top tenth $200,200 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $99,550 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $104,871 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($90,830) and the ninetieth ($200,200) 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 $99,550 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 $104,871 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.