Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,805
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$10,445
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,075
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
$64,250
Kept after tax
$53,805
Worth in national money
$51,075
State rank
16
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $64,250, which ranks 16 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 3.16% above the national middle.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 222 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $64,250 the take-home is $53,805. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $51,075 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $73,080, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Hampshire ranks 16 of 50 states publishing a median for life, physical, and social science technicians, all other, at $64,250 — about 3.16% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other ranks 222 of 488 occupations in New Hampshire by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $53,805 for life, physical, and social science technicians, all other, from $64,250. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $51,075. ⚠️ 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 $73,080 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $116,230 |
| This salary | $64,250 |
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 | $53,805 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,805 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,294 |
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 | $64,250 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,193 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $64,250 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,490 and the ninetieth is $116,230 — 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 $53,805, worked from $64,250. 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 222 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $51,075 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 222.
- The New Hampshire median of $64,250 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,490 to $116,230. 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 $53,805, on $64,250 for work ranking 222 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 222 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $51,075, worked from $64,250, 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 222 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 $73,080, 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 $47,490, the highest tenth $116,230, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $51,075 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $53,805 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $73,080. 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 ($47,490) and the ninetieth ($116,230) 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 $51,075 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 $53,805 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.