Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,524
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,686
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,366
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
$50,210
Kept after tax
$42,524
Worth in national money
$40,366
State rank
12
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $50,210, putting the state 12 of 46 — about 5.22% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 340.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $50,210, tax leaves $42,524 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $40,366 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $57,150, since top earners drag the number up.
- For extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $50,210, ranking 12 of 46 and running about 5.22% 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic sits at 340 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- After tax, $42,524 remains from the New Hampshire median of $50,210 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $40,366 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $57,150 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,980 |
| This salary | $50,210 |
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 | $42,524 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,524 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,394 |
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 | $50,210 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,104 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $50,210 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,520 and the ninetieth is $75,980 — 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 $42,524, worked from $50,210. 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 340 of 488.
- Two cautions on $40,366, the adjusted value of that $50,210 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 340 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $50,210 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,520 to $75,980. 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 $42,524, on $50,210 for work ranking 340 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 340 of 488 in the state.
- This $40,366 adjusted figure, worked from $50,210, 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 340 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 340 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 $57,150 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $45,520 at the bottom tenth to $75,980 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $40,366 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $42,524 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 46 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 $57,150. 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 ($45,520 to $75,980) 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 $40,366 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 $42,524 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.