Locksmiths and Safe Repairers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,586
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$8,924
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,171
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
$56,510
Kept after tax
$47,586
Worth in national money
$45,171
State rank
16
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for locksmiths and safe repairers. The middle earner takes $56,510, which ranks 16 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 10.11% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 295.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $56,510 the take-home is $47,586; in national-average money that behaves like $45,171. The average lands at $52,360, below the middle of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 16 of 48 states publishing a median for locksmiths and safe repairers, at $56,510 — about 10.11% 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, locksmiths and safe repairers sits at 295 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.
- Take-home for locksmiths and safe repairers in New Hampshire, on $56,510, is $47,586; deflated by the state's price level, $45,171. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $52,360 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,970 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,510 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,500 |
| This salary | $56,510 |
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 | $47,586 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,586 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,798 |
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 | $56,510 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,593 |
| 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 locksmiths and safe repairers in New Hampshire earn under $56,510 and half over. The published range runs $31,970 at the tenth percentile to $72,500 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $47,586, worked from $56,510. 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 295 of 488.
- Two cautions on $45,171, the adjusted value of that $56,510 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 295 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for locksmiths and safe repairers in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,970 to $72,500; 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.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $47,586, on $56,510 for work ranking 295 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 295 of 488 in the state.
- This $45,171 adjusted figure, worked from $56,510, 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 295 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 295 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 $52,360 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,970 at the tenth percentile, $72,500 at the ninetieth.
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 $45,171 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $47,586 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 48 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 $52,360. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,970 to $72,500) 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 $45,171 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 $47,586 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.