Librarians and Media Collections Specialists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,267
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,313
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,564
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
$63,580
Kept after tax
$53,267
Worth in national money
$50,564
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays this job around $63,580 at the midpoint, 26 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 228 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $63,580 the take-home is $53,267. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $50,564 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $67,000, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For librarians and media collections specialists the New Hampshire median is $63,580, ranking 26 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.
- Position 228 of 488 in New Hampshire places librarians and media collections specialists in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $53,267 for librarians and media collections specialists, from $63,580. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $50,564. ⚠️ 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 $67,000 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Librarians and Media Collections Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $94,300 |
| This salary | $63,580 |
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 | $53,267 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,267 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,251 |
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 | $63,580 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,141 |
| 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 librarians and media collections specialists in New Hampshire earn under $63,580 and half over. The published range runs $40,560 at the tenth percentile to $94,300 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $53,267 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $63,580. 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 228 of 488.
- Two cautions on $50,564, the adjusted value of that $63,580 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 228 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for librarians and media collections specialists in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,560 to $94,300; 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 $53,267, from $63,580, 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 228 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 51 for it.
- This $50,564 adjusted figure, worked from $63,580, 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 228 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 228 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 $67,000 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $40,560 and the top tenth $94,300 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $50,564 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $53,267 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $67,000. 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 ($40,560) and the ninetieth ($94,300) 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 $50,564 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 $53,267 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.