Crossing Guards and Flaggers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,125
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$6,855
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,140
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
$45,980
Kept after tax
$39,125
Worth in national money
$37,140
State rank
8
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for crossing guards and flaggers is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $45,980, putting the state 8 of 49 — about 20.68% ahead of the national figure.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, crossing guards and flaggers ranks 398. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $45,980 the take-home is $39,125. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $37,140 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is lower, $43,610, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For crossing guards and flaggers, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $45,980, ranking 8 of 49 and running about 20.68% 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, crossing guards and flaggers ranks 398 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $39,125 for crossing guards and flaggers, from $45,980. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $37,140. ⚠️ 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 $43,610 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Crossing Guards and Flaggers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,210 |
| This salary | $45,980 |
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 | $39,125 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,125 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,123 |
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 | $45,980 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,776 |
| 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 $45,980. The published range is $35,090 up to $46,210, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $39,125, worked from $45,980. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 398 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $37,140 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 398.
- Reported values are medians; for crossing guards and flaggers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,090 to $46,210. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $39,125, on $45,980 for work ranking 398 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 398 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $37,140, worked from $45,980, 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 398 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 $43,610, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,090 and the top tenth $46,210, 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?
The number and the value are different things. New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $37,140 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $39,125 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $43,610. 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 ($35,090 to $46,210) 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 $37,140 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 $39,125 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.