Funeral Attendants in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,055
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,795
15.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,668
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
$55,850
Kept after tax
$47,055
Worth in national money
$44,668
State rank
1
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for funeral attendants. The middle earner takes $55,850, which ranks 1 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 56.53% above the national middle.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 300 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 $55,850 the take-home is $47,055; in national-average money that behaves like $44,668. The average comes to $61,300, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 1 of 48 states publishing a median for funeral attendants, at $55,850 — about 56.53% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Funeral attendants ranks 300 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 funeral attendants in New Hampshire, on $55,850, is $47,055; deflated by the state's price level, $44,668. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $61,300 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Funeral Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,050 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $88,200 |
| This salary | $55,850 |
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 | $47,055 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,055 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,755 |
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 | $55,850 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,542 |
| 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 funeral attendants in New Hampshire earn under $55,850 and half over. The published range runs $48,050 at the tenth percentile to $88,200 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $47,055, worked from $55,850. 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 300 of 488.
- Two cautions on $44,668, the adjusted value of that $55,850 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 300 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for funeral attendants in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,050 to $88,200; 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.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $47,055, on $55,850 for work ranking 300 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 300 of 488 in the state.
- This $44,668 adjusted figure, worked from $55,850, 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 300 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 300 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 $61,300 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $48,050 at the tenth percentile, $88,200 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 $44,668 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $47,055 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $61,300. 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 ($48,050 to $88,200) 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 $44,668 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 $47,055 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.