Firefighters in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,674
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,946
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,255
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
$56,620
Kept after tax
$47,674
Worth in national money
$45,255
State rank
25
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays firefighters around $56,620 at the midpoint, 25 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Firefighters ranks 294 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $56,620 the take-home is $47,674; in national-average money that behaves like $45,255. The average lands at $55,730, below the middle of the range.
- For firefighters the New Hampshire median is $56,620, ranking 25 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 294 of 488 in New Hampshire places firefighters 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 firefighters in New Hampshire, on $56,620, is $47,674; deflated by the state's price level, $45,255. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $55,730 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Firefighters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,450 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,570 |
| This salary | $56,620 |
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 | $47,674 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,674 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,805 |
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 | $56,620 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,602 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Hampshire earn less than $56,620. The published range is $35,450 up to $78,570, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $47,674, from $56,620, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 294 of 488 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $45,255, the adjusted value of that $56,620 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 294 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for firefighters in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,450 to $78,570. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $47,674 from $56,620. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 294 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $45,255 — the adjusted value of that $56,620 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 294 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $35,450 at the bottom tenth to $78,570 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $45,255 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $47,674 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($35,450) and the ninetieth ($78,570) 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 $45,255 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 $47,674 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.