Curators in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$66,862
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$15,628
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,469
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
$82,490
Kept after tax
$66,862
Worth in national money
$63,469
State rank
2
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays curators a middle wage of $82,490, ranking 2 of 49 states and sitting about 30.07% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Hampshire. It ranks 121 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $82,490 the take-home is $66,862; in national-average money that behaves like $63,469. The average lands at $79,660, below the middle of the range.
- New Hampshire's median for curators is $82,490, about 30.07% above the national figure and 2 of 49 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, curators ranks 121 of 488 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for curators in New Hampshire, on $82,490, is $66,862; deflated by the state's price level, $63,469. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $79,660 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Curators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,620 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $82,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,030 |
| This salary | $82,490 |
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 | $66,862 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,862 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,336 |
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 | $82,490 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,371 |
| 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 $82,490. The published range is $44,620 up to $121,030, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $66,862, from $82,490, 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 121 of 488 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $63,469, the adjusted value of that $82,490 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 121 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for curators in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $44,620 to $121,030. 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 $66,862 from $82,490. 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 121 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $63,469 — the adjusted value of that $82,490 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 121 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 $79,660, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $44,620, the highest tenth $121,030, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $63,469 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $66,862 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $79,660. 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 ($44,620) and the ninetieth ($121,030) 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 $63,469 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 $66,862 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.