Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,217
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,323
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,720
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
$58,540
Kept after tax
$49,217
Worth in national money
$46,720
State rank
26
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $58,540, ranking 26 of 49 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 280 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $58,540 the take-home is $49,217; in national-average money that behaves like $46,720. The average comes to $61,160, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining: a median of $58,540, ranking 26 of 49. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining ranks 280 of 488 occupations in New Hampshire by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining in New Hampshire, on $58,540, is $49,217; deflated by the state's price level, $46,720. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $61,160 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,530 |
| This salary | $58,540 |
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 | $49,217 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,217 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,928 |
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 | $58,540 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,750 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,540 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $48,010 and the ninetieth is $83,530 — 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 $49,217, worked from $58,540. 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 280 of 488.
- Two cautions on $46,720, the adjusted value of that $58,540 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 280 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $58,540 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $48,010 to $83,530. 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 $49,217, on $58,540 for work ranking 280 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 280 of 488 in the state.
- This $46,720 adjusted figure, worked from $58,540, 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 280 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 280 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $61,160, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $48,010 at the tenth percentile, $83,530 at the ninetieth.
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 $46,720 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $49,217 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 $61,160. 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 ($48,010 to $83,530) 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 $46,720 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 $49,217 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.