Interior Designers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,716
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,424
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,991
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
$64,140
Kept after tax
$53,716
Worth in national money
$50,991
State rank
20
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays interior designers around $64,140 at the midpoint, 20 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 225.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $64,140 the take-home is $53,716; in national-average money that behaves like $50,991. The average comes to $64,750, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For interior designers the New Hampshire median is $64,140, ranking 20 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, interior designers sits at 225 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for interior designers in New Hampshire, on $64,140, is $53,716; deflated by the state's price level, $50,991. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $64,750 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Interior Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,070 |
| This salary | $64,140 |
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 | $53,716 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,716 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,287 |
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 | $64,140 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,185 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Hampshire earn less than $64,140. The published range is $38,330 up to $97,070, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $53,716 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $64,140. 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 225 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $50,991 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 225.
- Reported values are medians; for interior designers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,330 to $97,070. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $53,716, from $64,140, 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 225 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $50,991, worked from $64,140, 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 225 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $38,330 at the bottom tenth to $97,070 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $50,991 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $53,716 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,330) and the ninetieth ($97,070) 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 $50,991 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 $53,716 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.