Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,836
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,274
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,764
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
$48,110
Kept after tax
$40,836
Worth in national money
$38,764
State rank
16
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays this job a middle wage of $48,110, ranking 16 of 49 states and sitting about 3.84% above the national middle.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, this job lands at 370. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $48,110 the take-home is $40,836; in national-average money that behaves like $38,764. The average comes to $48,150, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire's median for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic is $48,110, about 3.84% above the national figure and 16 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, this work ranks 370 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.
- Take-home for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in New Hampshire, on $48,110, is $40,836; deflated by the state's price level, $38,764. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $48,150 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,450 |
| This salary | $48,110 |
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 | $40,836 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,836 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,259 |
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 | $48,110 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,942 |
| 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 $48,110. The published range is $37,580 up to $61,450, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $40,836, from $48,110, 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 370 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 $38,764, the adjusted value of that $48,110 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 370 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,580 to $61,450. 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 $40,836 from $48,110. 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 370 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $38,764 — the adjusted value of that $48,110 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 370 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $37,580 at the tenth percentile, $61,450 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,764 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $40,836 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($37,580 to $61,450) 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 $38,764 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 $40,836 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.