Construction Laborers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,339
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,641
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,191
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
$49,980
Kept after tax
$42,339
Worth in national money
$40,191
State rank
18
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 18 of 51 states for construction laborers, with a middle wage of $49,980. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 341 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 $49,980, tax leaves $42,339 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $40,191 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $51,730, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire ranks 18 of 51 for construction laborers at $49,980. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Construction laborers ranks 341 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, $42,339 remains from the New Hampshire median of $49,980 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $40,191 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $51,730 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Construction Laborers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,020 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,310 |
| This salary | $49,980 |
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 | $42,339 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,339 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,379 |
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 | $49,980 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,087 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,980 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,020 and the ninetieth is $63,310 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $42,339 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $49,980. 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 341 of 488.
- Two cautions on $40,191, the adjusted value of that $49,980 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 341 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $49,980 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,020 to $63,310. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $42,339, from $49,980, 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 341 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 18 of 51 for it.
- This $40,191 adjusted figure, worked from $49,980, 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 341 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 341 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 $51,730, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $38,020 at the bottom tenth to $63,310 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 $40,191 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $42,339 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?
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 $51,730. 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 ($38,020 to $63,310) 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 $40,191 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 $42,339 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.