Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health in New Hampshire

May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,633
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,447
15.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,318
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
$54,080
Kept after tax
$45,633
Worth in national money
$43,318
State rank
27
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 27 of 49 states for this job, with a middle wage of $54,080. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 312 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $54,080 the take-home is $45,633; in national-average money that behaves like $43,318. The average comes to $54,670, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 27 of 49 for environmental science and protection technicians, including health at $54,080. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 312 of 488 in New Hampshire places environmental science and protection technicians, including health in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Take-home for environmental science and protection technicians, including health in New Hampshire, on $54,080, is $45,633; deflated by the state's price level, $43,318. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $54,670 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $54,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,080 |
| This salary | $54,080 |
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 | $45,633 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $45,633 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,642 |
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 | $54,080 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,405 |
| 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 environmental science and protection technicians, including health in New Hampshire earn under $54,080 and half over. The published range runs $39,720 at the tenth percentile to $68,080 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $45,633 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $54,080. 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 312 of 488.
- Two cautions on $43,318, the adjusted value of that $54,080 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 312 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for environmental science and protection technicians, including health in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,720 to $68,080; 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 $45,633, from $54,080, 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 312 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 49 for it.
- This $43,318 adjusted figure, worked from $54,080, 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 312 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 312 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $39,720 at the tenth percentile, $68,080 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 $43,318 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $45,633 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($39,720 to $68,080) 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 $43,318 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 $45,633 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.