Insurance Sales Agents in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,149
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$13,221
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,047
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
$74,370
Kept after tax
$61,149
Worth in national money
$58,047
State rank
10
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays insurance sales agents a middle wage of $74,370, ranking 10 of 51 states and sitting about 19.41% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Insurance sales agents ranks 167 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $74,370 the take-home is $61,149; in national-average money that behaves like $58,047. The average comes to $85,100, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire's median for insurance sales agents is $74,370, about 19.41% above the national figure and 10 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 167 of 488 in New Hampshire places insurance sales agents 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.
- Take-home for insurance sales agents in New Hampshire, on $74,370, is $61,149; deflated by the state's price level, $58,047. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $85,100 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Insurance Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $144,310 |
| This salary | $74,370 |
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 | $61,149 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,149 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,880 |
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 | $74,370 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,741 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,370 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,580 and the ninetieth is $144,310 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $61,149, worked from $74,370. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 167 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,047 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 167.
- The New Hampshire median of $74,370 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,580 to $144,310. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $61,149, on $74,370 for work ranking 167 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 167 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,047, worked from $74,370, 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 167 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 $85,100 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $46,580 at the bottom tenth to $144,310 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $58,047 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $61,149 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 $85,100. 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 ($46,580) and the ninetieth ($144,310) 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 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 $58,047 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 $61,149 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.