Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,989
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$21,161
20.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,931
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
$101,150
Kept after tax
$79,989
Worth in national money
$75,931
State rank
12
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $101,150, which ranks 12 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 0.76% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, this job comes in at 69 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $101,150 the take-home is $79,989; in national-average money that behaves like $75,931. The average lands at $98,390, below the middle of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 12 of 50 states publishing a median for geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers, at $101,150 — about 0.76% 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.
- Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers ranks 69 of 488 occupations by median in New Hampshire, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers in New Hampshire, on $101,150, is $79,989; deflated by the state's price level, $75,931. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $98,390 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $157,850 |
| This salary | $101,150 |
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 | $79,989 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,989 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,384 |
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 | $101,150 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,818 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $101,150 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $63,290 and the ninetieth is $157,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $79,989 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $101,150. 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 69 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $75,931, the adjusted value of that $101,150 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 69 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $101,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $63,290 to $157,850. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $79,989, from $101,150, 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 69 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $75,931 — the adjusted value of that $101,150 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 69 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $63,290, the highest tenth $157,850, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $75,931 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $79,989 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($63,290) and the ninetieth ($157,850) 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 $75,931 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 $79,989 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.