Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$100,463
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$30,037
23.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$95,365
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
$130,500
Kept after tax
$100,463
Worth in national money
$95,365
State rank
3
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $130,500, putting the state 3 of 45 — about 13.32% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Hampshire. It ranks 29 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $130,500, tax leaves $100,463 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $95,365 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $116,670.
- For health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $130,500, ranking 3 of 45 and running about 13.32% 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.
- Within New Hampshire, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 29 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, $100,463 remains from the New Hampshire median of $130,500 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $95,365 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $116,670 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $130,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $152,720 |
| This salary | $130,500 |
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 | $100,463 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $100,463 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,018 |
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 | $130,500 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,322 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $130,500 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $63,010 and the ninetieth is $152,720 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $100,463 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $130,500. 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 29 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 $95,365, the adjusted value of that $130,500 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 29 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $130,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $63,010 to $152,720. 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 $100,463, from $130,500, 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 29 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 45 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $95,365 — the adjusted value of that $130,500 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 29 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 $116,670 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 $63,010 at the bottom tenth to $152,720 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New Hampshire run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $95,365 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $100,463 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 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 $116,670. 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 ($63,010 to $152,720) 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 $95,365 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 $100,463 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.