Industrial Machinery Mechanics in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,725
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,425
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,999
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
$64,150
Kept after tax
$53,725
Worth in national money
$50,999
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $64,150, ranking 32 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 224 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $64,150, tax leaves $53,725 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $50,999 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $67,280, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for industrial machinery mechanics: a median of $64,150, ranking 32 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 224 of 488 in New Hampshire places industrial machinery mechanics in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $53,725 remains from the New Hampshire median of $64,150 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $50,999 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $67,280 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Industrial Machinery Mechanics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,850 |
| This salary | $64,150 |
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 | $53,725 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,725 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,288 |
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 | $64,150 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,186 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $64,150 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,630 and the ninetieth is $91,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $53,725 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $64,150. 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 224 of 488.
- Two cautions on $50,999, the adjusted value of that $64,150 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Hampshire. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 224 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $64,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,630 to $91,850. 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 $53,725, from $64,150, 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 224 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 51 for it.
- This $50,999 adjusted figure, worked from $64,150, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 224 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 224 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 $67,280 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $46,630 at the tenth percentile, $91,850 at the ninetieth.
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 $50,999 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $53,725 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $67,280. 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 ($46,630 to $91,850) 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 $50,999 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 $53,725 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.