Interpreters and Translators in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,473
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,897
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,065
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
$56,370
Kept after tax
$47,473
Worth in national money
$45,065
State rank
25
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 25 of 47 states for interpreters and translators, with a middle wage of $56,370. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 296 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $56,370 the take-home is $47,473. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $45,065 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is lower, $55,630, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- New Hampshire ranks 25 of 47 for interpreters and translators at $56,370. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Interpreters and translators ranks 296 of 488 occupations in New Hampshire by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $47,473 for interpreters and translators, from $56,370. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $45,065. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $55,630 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Interpreters and Translators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,900 |
| This salary | $56,370 |
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 | $47,473 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,473 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,789 |
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 | $56,370 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,582 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $56,370 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,610 and the ninetieth is $61,900 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $47,473, from $56,370, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 296 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $45,065, the adjusted value of that $56,370 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 296 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $56,370 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,610 to $61,900. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $47,473 from $56,370. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 296 of 488 locally.
- This $45,065 adjusted figure, worked from $56,370, 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 296 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 296 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $47,610 and the top tenth $61,900, so most people doing this work in New Hampshire sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $45,065 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $47,473 of this wage reaches your account, because New Hampshire takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,610 to $61,900) 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 $45,065 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 $47,473 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.