Highway Maintenance Workers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,199
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,851
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,007
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
$51,050
Kept after tax
$43,199
Worth in national money
$41,007
State rank
21
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays highway maintenance workers around $51,050 at the midpoint, 21 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 332 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $51,050 the take-home is $43,199. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $41,007 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $52,940, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For highway maintenance workers the New Hampshire median is $51,050, ranking 21 of 49 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.
- Highway maintenance workers ranks 332 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $43,199 for highway maintenance workers, from $51,050. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $41,007. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $52,940 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Highway Maintenance Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,410 |
| This salary | $51,050 |
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 | $43,199 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,199 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,448 |
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 | $51,050 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,170 |
| 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 highway maintenance workers in New Hampshire earn under $51,050 and half over. The published range runs $41,520 at the tenth percentile to $61,410 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $43,199 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $51,050. 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 332 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 $41,007, the adjusted value of that $51,050 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 332 of 488 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for highway maintenance workers in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,520 to $61,410; 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.
- Retained pay of $43,199, from $51,050, 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 332 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $41,007 — the adjusted value of that $51,050 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 332 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 $52,940, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $41,520 and the top tenth $61,410, so most people doing this work in New Hampshire sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $41,007 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $43,199 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $52,940. 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 ($41,520 to $61,410) 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 $41,007 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 $43,199 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.