Human Resources Managers in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$120,334
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$52,106
30.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$110,517
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — 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
$172,440
Kept after tax
$120,334
Worth in national money
$110,517
State rank
4
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for human resources managers is strong here. New Jersey's middle earner gets $172,440, putting the state 4 of 51 — about 15.51% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Jersey. It ranks 16 out of 490 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $172,440, tax leaves $120,334 — and because New Jersey is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $110,517 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $186,360, since top earners drag the number up.
- For human resources managers, New Jersey sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $172,440, ranking 4 of 51 and running about 15.51% 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 Jersey, human resources managers ranks 16 of 490 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, $120,334 remains from the New Jersey median of $172,440 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $110,517 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $186,360 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Human Resources Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $108,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $172,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $294,570 |
| This salary | $172,440 |
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 Jersey | $120,334 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $129,129 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$22,366 |
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 | $159,573 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$31,798 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $172,440 as a midpoint for New Jersey, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $108,040 and the ninetieth is $294,570 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $120,334 take-home in New Jersey comes from $172,440. 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 16 of 490.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Jersey, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $110,517, the adjusted value of that $172,440 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 16 of 490 in the state.
- The New Jersey median of $172,440 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $108,040 to $294,570. 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 $120,334, from $172,440, assumes a single New Jersey 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 16 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 4 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Jersey, so $110,517 — the adjusted value of that $172,440 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 16 of 490 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 $186,360, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $108,040, the highest tenth $294,570, 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 Jersey costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $110,517 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and New Jersey adds its own income tax on top — which is why $120,334 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Jersey is $186,360. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($108,040) and the ninetieth ($294,570) 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 Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $110,517 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $120,334 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.