Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,151
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,149
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,519
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
$37,300
Kept after tax
$32,151
Worth in national money
$30,519
State rank
13
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks. The middle earner takes $37,300, which ranks 13 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 6.36% above the national middle.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks lands at 455. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $37,300, tax leaves $32,151 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $30,519 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $38,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire ranks 13 of 51 states publishing a median for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks, at $37,300 — about 6.36% 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.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 455 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After tax, $32,151 remains from the New Hampshire median of $37,300 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $30,519 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $38,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $44,640 |
| This salary | $37,300 |
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 | $32,151 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,151 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,566 |
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 | $37,300 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,103 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,300 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,080 and the ninetieth is $44,640 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $32,151 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $37,300. 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 455 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $30,519 uses one figure for the whole of New Hampshire. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 455.
- The New Hampshire median of $37,300 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,080 to $44,640. 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 $32,151, from $37,300, 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 455 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $30,519, worked from $37,300, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Hampshire address, on work sitting at 455 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 $38,530 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 $35,080 at the bottom tenth to $44,640 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 $30,519 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $32,151 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $38,530. 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 ($35,080 to $44,640) 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 $30,519 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 $32,151 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.