Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,588
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,702
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,427
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
$50,290
Kept after tax
$42,588
Worth in national money
$40,427
State rank
8
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $50,290, putting the state 8 of 47 — about 7.99% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 339.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $50,290 the take-home is $42,588; in national-average money that behaves like $40,427. The average comes to $53,270, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $50,290, ranking 8 of 47 and running about 7.99% 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders sits at 339 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in New Hampshire, on $50,290, is $42,588; deflated by the state's price level, $40,427. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $53,270 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,280 |
| This salary | $50,290 |
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 | $42,588 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,588 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,399 |
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 | $50,290 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,111 |
| 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 cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in New Hampshire earn under $50,290 and half over. The published range runs $39,520 at the tenth percentile to $65,280 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $42,588 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $50,290. 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 339 of 488.
- Two cautions on $40,427, the adjusted value of that $50,290 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 339 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,520 to $65,280; 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 $42,588, from $50,290, 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 339 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 47 for it.
- This $40,427 adjusted figure, worked from $50,290, 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 339 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 339 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 $53,270, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $39,520 at the tenth percentile, $65,280 at the ninetieth.
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 $40,427 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $42,588 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. 47 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 $53,270. 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 ($39,520 to $65,280) 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 $40,427 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 $42,588 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.