Couriers and Messengers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,826
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,804
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,059
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
$40,630
Kept after tax
$34,826
Worth in national money
$33,059
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays couriers and messengers a middle wage of $40,630, ranking 15 of 51 states and sitting about 3.65% above the national middle.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, couriers and messengers lands at 431. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $40,630, tax leaves $34,826 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $33,059 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $41,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire's median for couriers and messengers is $40,630, about 3.65% above the national figure and 15 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 431 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After tax, $34,826 remains from the New Hampshire median of $40,630 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $33,059 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $41,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Couriers and Messengers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,980 |
| This salary | $40,630 |
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 | $34,826 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,826 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,779 |
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 | $40,630 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,361 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Hampshire earn less than $40,630. The published range is $26,350 up to $53,980, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $34,826, from $40,630, 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 431 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $33,059, the adjusted value of that $40,630 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 431 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for couriers and messengers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $26,350 to $53,980. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $34,826 from $40,630. 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 431 of 488 locally.
- This $33,059 adjusted figure, worked from $40,630, 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 431 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 431 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $26,350 at the bottom tenth to $53,980 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $33,059 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $34,826 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($26,350 to $53,980) 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 $33,059 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 $34,826 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.