Library Technicians in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,270
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,380
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,176
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
$48,650
Kept after tax
$41,270
Worth in national money
$39,176
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for library technicians is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $48,650, putting the state 14 of 51 — about 9.13% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Library technicians ranks 362 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $48,650, tax leaves $41,270 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $39,176 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $47,750.
- For library technicians, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $48,650, ranking 14 of 51 and running about 9.13% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 362 of 488 in New Hampshire places library technicians 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.
- After tax, $41,270 remains from the New Hampshire median of $48,650 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $39,176 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $47,750 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Library Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,440 |
| This salary | $48,650 |
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 | $41,270 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,270 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,294 |
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 | $48,650 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,983 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $48,650 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,200 and the ninetieth is $62,440 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $41,270 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $48,650. 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 362 of 488.
- Two cautions on $39,176, the adjusted value of that $48,650 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 362 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $48,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,200 to $62,440. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $41,270, from $48,650, 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 362 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 51 for it.
- This $39,176 adjusted figure, worked from $48,650, 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 362 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 362 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $31,200 at the bottom tenth to $62,440 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 $39,176 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,270 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,200 to $62,440) 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 $39,176 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 $41,270 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.