Electrical Engineers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,024
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$31,686
23.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$98,746
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
$135,710
Kept after tax
$104,024
Worth in national money
$98,746
State rank
4
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for electrical engineers is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $135,710, putting the state 4 of 49 — about 12.5% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, electrical engineers comes in at 24 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $135,710 the take-home is $104,024; in national-average money that behaves like $98,746. The average comes to $142,360, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For electrical engineers, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $135,710, ranking 4 of 49 and running about 12.5% 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.
- Electrical engineers ranks 24 of 488 occupations by median in New Hampshire, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for electrical engineers in New Hampshire, on $135,710, is $104,024; deflated by the state's price level, $98,746. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $142,360 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Electrical Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $92,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $135,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $202,790 |
| This salary | $135,710 |
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 | $104,024 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $104,024 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,302 |
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 | $135,710 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,803 |
| 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 electrical engineers in New Hampshire earn under $135,710 and half over. The published range runs $92,700 at the tenth percentile to $202,790 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $104,024, from $135,710, 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 24 of 488 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $98,746 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 24.
- Figures are distribution medians for electrical engineers in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $92,700 to $202,790; 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.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $104,024 from $135,710. 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 24 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $98,746, worked from $135,710, 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 24 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 $142,360 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $92,700 at the bottom tenth to $202,790 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $98,746 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $104,024 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?
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 $142,360. 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 ($92,700) and the ninetieth ($202,790) 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 $98,746 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 $104,024 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.