Counter and Rental Clerks in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,145
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,105
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,108
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
$47,250
Kept after tax
$40,145
Worth in national money
$38,108
State rank
5
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for counter and rental clerks is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $47,250, putting the state 5 of 51 — about 14.41% ahead of the national figure.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, counter and rental clerks ranks 383. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $47,250, tax leaves $40,145 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $38,108 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $52,700, since top earners drag the number up.
- For counter and rental clerks, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $47,250, ranking 5 of 51 and running about 14.41% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, counter and rental clerks ranks 383 of 488, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- After tax, $40,145 remains from the New Hampshire median of $47,250 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $38,108 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $52,700 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Counter and Rental Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,660 |
| This salary | $47,250 |
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 | $40,145 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,145 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,204 |
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 | $47,250 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,875 |
| 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 counter and rental clerks in New Hampshire earn under $47,250 and half over. The published range runs $33,270 at the tenth percentile to $77,660 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $40,145 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $47,250. 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 383 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $38,108 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 383.
- Figures are distribution medians for counter and rental clerks in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,270 to $77,660; 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 $40,145, from $47,250, 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 383 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $38,108, worked from $47,250, 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 383 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $52,700, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $33,270 at the bottom tenth to $77,660 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $38,108 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $40,145 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.
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 $52,700. 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 ($33,270) and the ninetieth ($77,660) 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 $38,108 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 $40,145 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.