Computer Programmers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,889
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$13,111
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,800
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
$74,000
Kept after tax
$60,889
Worth in national money
$57,800
State rank
42
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is among the lower-paying states for computer programmers. The middle earner takes $74,000, ranking 42 of 46 states — about 26.29% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 168 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $74,000, tax leaves $60,889 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $57,800 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $79,720, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire ranks 42 of 46 for computer programmers, with a median of $74,000 — about 26.29% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Computer programmers ranks 168 of 488 occupations in New Hampshire by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After tax, $60,889 remains from the New Hampshire median of $74,000 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $57,800 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $79,720 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Computer Programmers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $124,920 |
| This salary | $74,000 |
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 | $60,889 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,889 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,860 |
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 | $74,000 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,712 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of computer programmers in New Hampshire earn under $74,000 and half over. The published range runs $53,790 at the tenth percentile to $124,920 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $60,889 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $74,000. 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 168 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $57,800 uses one figure for the whole of New Hampshire. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 168.
- Figures are distribution medians for computer programmers in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $53,790 to $124,920; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $60,889, from $74,000, 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 168 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 46 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $57,800, worked from $74,000, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Hampshire address, on work sitting at 168 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $79,720, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $53,790, the highest tenth $124,920, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $57,800 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $60,889 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $79,720. 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 ($53,790) and the ninetieth ($124,920) 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 $57,800 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 $60,889 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.