Correctional Officers and Jailers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,483
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,877
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,871
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
$61,360
Kept after tax
$51,483
Worth in national money
$48,871
State rank
21
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $61,360, ranking 21 of 49 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 255 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 $61,360 the take-home is $51,483. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $48,871 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $65,030, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for correctional officers and jailers: a median of $61,360, ranking 21 of 49. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Correctional officers and jailers ranks 255 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 $51,483 for correctional officers and jailers, from $61,360. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $48,871. ⚠️ 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 $65,030 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Correctional Officers and Jailers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,240 |
| This salary | $61,360 |
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 | $51,483 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,483 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,109 |
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 | $61,360 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,969 |
| 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 correctional officers and jailers in New Hampshire earn under $61,360 and half over. The published range runs $47,480 at the tenth percentile to $82,240 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $51,483, from $61,360, 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 255 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $48,871, the adjusted value of that $61,360 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 255 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for correctional officers and jailers in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $47,480 to $82,240; 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.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $51,483 from $61,360. 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 255 of 488 locally.
- This $48,871 adjusted figure, worked from $61,360, 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 255 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 255 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 $65,030, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $47,480 and the top tenth $82,240, so most people doing this work in New Hampshire sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $48,871 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,483 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $65,030. 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 ($47,480 to $82,240) 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 $48,871 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 $51,483 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.