Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,148
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$6,372
14.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,263
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
$43,520
Kept after tax
$37,148
Worth in national money
$35,263
State rank
41
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in New Hampshire. The middle earner gets $43,520. That is 41 of 47 states, and about 17.17% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, this job lands at 415. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $43,520 the take-home is $37,148; in national-average money that behaves like $35,263. The average comes to $52,360, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For jewelers and precious stone and metal workers, New Hampshire sits in the lower band at $43,520, ranking 41 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 17.17%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 415 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for jewelers and precious stone and metal workers in New Hampshire, on $43,520, is $37,148; deflated by the state's price level, $35,263. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $52,360 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,520 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,800 |
| This salary | $43,520 |
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 | $37,148 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,148 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,965 |
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 | $43,520 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,586 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $43,520 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,170 and the ninetieth is $72,800 — 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 $37,148, worked from $43,520. 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 415 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $35,263 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 415.
- The New Hampshire median of $43,520 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,170 to $72,800. 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 $37,148, on $43,520 for work ranking 415 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 415 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $35,263, worked from $43,520, 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 415 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $52,360, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,170, the highest tenth $72,800, 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 Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $35,263 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $37,148 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.
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 $52,360. 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 ($36,170) and the ninetieth ($72,800) 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 $35,263 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 $37,148 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.