Maintenance Workers, Machinery in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,049
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$14,021
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,850
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
$77,070
Kept after tax
$63,049
Worth in national money
$59,850
State rank
2
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for maintenance workers, machinery. The middle earner takes $77,070, which ranks 2 of 46 states with published figures. That is about 26.66% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 154.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $77,070 the take-home is $63,049; in national-average money that behaves like $59,850. The average lands at $70,470, below the middle of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 2 of 46 states publishing a median for maintenance workers, machinery, at $77,070 — about 26.66% 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, maintenance workers, machinery sits at 154 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 maintenance workers, machinery in New Hampshire, on $77,070, is $63,049; deflated by the state's price level, $59,850. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $70,470 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Maintenance Workers, Machinery
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,890 |
| This salary | $77,070 |
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 | $63,049 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,049 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,032 |
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 | $77,070 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,951 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $77,070 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,870 and the ninetieth is $83,890 — 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 $63,049, worked from $77,070. 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 154 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 $59,850, the adjusted value of that $77,070 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 154 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $77,070 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,870 to $83,890. 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 $63,049, on $77,070 for work ranking 154 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 154 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $59,850 — the adjusted value of that $77,070 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 154 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 $70,470 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 — $45,870 at the tenth percentile, $83,890 at the ninetieth.
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 $59,850 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $63,049 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $70,470. 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 ($45,870 to $83,890) 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 $59,850 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 $63,049 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.