First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$74,762
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$18,958
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,969
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
$93,720
Kept after tax
$74,762
Worth in national money
$70,969
State rank
18
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $93,720, ranking 18 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Hampshire. It ranks 89 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $93,720, tax leaves $74,762 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $70,969 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $90,100.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers: a median of $93,720, ranking 18 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Within New Hampshire, first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers ranks 89 of 488 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After tax, $74,762 remains from the New Hampshire median of $93,720 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $70,969 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $90,100 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,950 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $93,720 |
| Top tenth earn over | $119,250 |
| This salary | $93,720 |
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 | $74,762 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $74,762 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,967 |
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 | $93,720 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,242 |
| 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 $93,720. The published range is $59,950 up to $119,250, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $74,762 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $93,720. 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 89 of 488.
- Two cautions on $70,969, the adjusted value of that $93,720 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 89 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $59,950 to $119,250. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $74,762, from $93,720, 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 89 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 18 of 50 for it.
- This $70,969 adjusted figure, worked from $93,720, 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 89 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 89 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 $90,100, 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?
The range here is narrow. From $59,950 at the bottom tenth to $119,250 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 $70,969 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $74,762 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $90,100. 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 ($59,950 to $119,250) 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 $70,969 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 $74,762 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.