Engineers, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$98,843
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$29,287
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$93,828
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
$128,130
Kept after tax
$98,843
Worth in national money
$93,828
State rank
13
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for engineers, all other is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $128,130, putting the state 13 of 51 — about 4.23% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, engineers, all other comes in at 34 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $128,130 the take-home is $98,843; in national-average money that behaves like $93,828. The average lands at $127,190, below the middle of the range.
- For engineers, all other, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $128,130, ranking 13 of 51 and running about 4.23% 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.
- Engineers, all other ranks 34 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 engineers, all other in New Hampshire, on $128,130, is $98,843; deflated by the state's price level, $93,828. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $127,190 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Engineers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $73,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $128,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $187,910 |
| This salary | $128,130 |
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 | $98,843 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $98,843 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,889 |
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 | $128,130 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,077 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $128,130 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $73,420 and the ninetieth is $187,910 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $98,843, worked from $128,130. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 34 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $93,828 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 34.
- The New Hampshire median of $128,130 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $73,420 to $187,910. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $98,843, on $128,130 for work ranking 34 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 34 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $93,828, worked from $128,130, 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 34 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $73,420 at the bottom tenth to $187,910 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $93,828 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $98,843 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($73,420) and the ninetieth ($187,910) 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 $93,828 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 $98,843 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.