Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,540
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,870
16.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,722
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
$66,410
Kept after tax
$55,540
Worth in national money
$52,722
State rank
8
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for earth drillers, except oil and gas is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $66,410, putting the state 8 of 48 — about 10.33% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 203.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $66,410 the take-home is $55,540; in national-average money that behaves like $52,722. The average comes to $69,120, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For earth drillers, except oil and gas, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $66,410, ranking 8 of 48 and running about 10.33% 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, earth drillers, except oil and gas sits at 203 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 earth drillers, except oil and gas in New Hampshire, on $66,410, is $55,540; deflated by the state's price level, $52,722. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $69,120 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $89,260 |
| This salary | $66,410 |
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 | $55,540 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,540 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,433 |
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 | $66,410 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,361 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $66,410 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,070 and the ninetieth is $89,260 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $55,540 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $66,410. 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 203 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $52,722 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 203.
- The New Hampshire median of $66,410 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,070 to $89,260. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $55,540, from $66,410, 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 203 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $52,722, worked from $66,410, 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 203 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $69,120 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $49,070 at the tenth percentile, $89,260 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 $52,722 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $55,540 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 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 $69,120. 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 ($49,070 to $89,260) 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 $52,722 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 $55,540 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.