Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,015
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$6,095
14.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,188
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
$42,110
Kept after tax
$36,015
Worth in national money
$34,188
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays this job around $42,110 at the midpoint, 22 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, this job lands at 422. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $42,110, tax leaves $36,015 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $34,188 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $42,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- For laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand the New Hampshire median is $42,110, ranking 22 of 51 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.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 422 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.
- After tax, $36,015 remains from the New Hampshire median of $42,110 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $34,188 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $42,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,560 |
| This salary | $42,110 |
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 | $36,015 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,015 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,874 |
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 | $42,110 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,476 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,110 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,960 and the ninetieth is $53,560 — 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 $36,015, worked from $42,110. 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 422 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $34,188, the adjusted value of that $42,110 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 422 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $42,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,960 to $53,560. 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 $36,015, on $42,110 for work ranking 422 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 422 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $34,188 — the adjusted value of that $42,110 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 422 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $33,960 at the bottom tenth to $53,560 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $34,188 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $36,015 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,960 to $53,560) 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 $34,188 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 $36,015 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.