Conservation Scientists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,346
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$13,304
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,234
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
$74,650
Kept after tax
$61,346
Worth in national money
$58,234
State rank
23
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays conservation scientists around $74,650 at the midpoint, 23 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 164 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $74,650 the take-home is $61,346. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $58,234 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is lower, $74,300, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For conservation scientists the New Hampshire median is $74,650, ranking 23 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Conservation scientists ranks 164 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $61,346 for conservation scientists, from $74,650. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $58,234. ⚠️ 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 $74,300 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Conservation Scientists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,710 |
| This salary | $74,650 |
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 | $61,346 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,346 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,896 |
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 | $74,650 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,763 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,650 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,340 and the ninetieth is $103,710 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $61,346, from $74,650, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 164 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $58,234, the adjusted value of that $74,650 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 164 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $74,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,340 to $103,710. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $61,346 from $74,650. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 164 of 488 locally.
- This $58,234 adjusted figure, worked from $74,650, 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 164 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 164 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $44,340, the highest tenth $103,710, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $58,234 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $61,346 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($44,340) and the ninetieth ($103,710) 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 $58,234 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 $61,346 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.