Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,236
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$12,414
17.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,230
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
$71,650
Kept after tax
$59,236
Worth in national money
$56,230
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 19 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $71,650. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 179 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $71,650, tax leaves $59,236 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $56,230 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $73,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire ranks 19 of 51 for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants at $71,650. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 179 of 488 in New Hampshire places executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants 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.
- After tax, $59,236 remains from the New Hampshire median of $71,650 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $56,230 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $73,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $71,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,860 |
| This salary | $71,650 |
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 | $59,236 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,236 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,728 |
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 | $71,650 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,358 |
| 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 executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in New Hampshire earn under $71,650 and half over. The published range runs $50,000 at the tenth percentile to $101,860 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $59,236 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $71,650. 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 179 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,230 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 179.
- Figures are distribution medians for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $50,000 to $101,860; 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 $59,236, from $71,650, 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 179 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,230, worked from $71,650, 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 179 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $50,000 and the top tenth $101,860 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $56,230 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $59,236 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($50,000) and the ninetieth ($101,860) 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 $56,230 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 $59,236 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.