Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,825
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,005
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,602
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
$51,830
Kept after tax
$43,825
Worth in national money
$41,602
State rank
25
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $51,830, ranking 25 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 325.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $51,830, tax leaves $43,825 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $41,602 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $57,710, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for legal secretaries and administrative assistants: a median of $51,830, ranking 25 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, legal secretaries and administrative assistants sits at 325 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.
- After tax, $43,825 remains from the New Hampshire median of $51,830 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $41,602 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $57,710 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,830 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,060 |
| This salary | $51,830 |
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 | $43,825 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,825 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,498 |
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 | $51,830 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,230 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of legal secretaries and administrative assistants in New Hampshire earn under $51,830 and half over. The published range runs $37,490 at the tenth percentile to $81,060 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $43,825 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $51,830. 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 325 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 $41,602, the adjusted value of that $51,830 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 325 of 488 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for legal secretaries and administrative assistants in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,490 to $81,060; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $43,825, from $51,830, 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 325 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $41,602 — the adjusted value of that $51,830 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 325 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 $57,710 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,490, the highest tenth $81,060, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New Hampshire run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $41,602 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $43,825 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $57,710. 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 ($37,490) and the ninetieth ($81,060) 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 $41,602 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 $43,825 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.