Manicurists and Pedicurists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,383
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$4,717
13.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,841
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
$35,100
Kept after tax
$30,383
Worth in national money
$28,841
State rank
29
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays manicurists and pedicurists around $35,100 at the midpoint, 29 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, manicurists and pedicurists lands at 467. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $35,100 the take-home is $30,383; in national-average money that behaves like $28,841. The average comes to $39,220, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For manicurists and pedicurists the New Hampshire median is $35,100, ranking 29 of 49 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.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 467 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for manicurists and pedicurists in New Hampshire, on $35,100, is $30,383; deflated by the state's price level, $28,841. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $39,220 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Manicurists and Pedicurists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,900 |
| This salary | $35,100 |
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 | $30,383 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,383 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,425 |
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 | $35,100 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,933 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Hampshire earn less than $35,100. The published range is $29,410 up to $56,900, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $30,383, from $35,100, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 467 of 488 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $28,841 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 467.
- Reported values are medians; for manicurists and pedicurists in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $29,410 to $56,900. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $30,383 from $35,100. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 467 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $28,841, worked from $35,100, 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 467 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 $39,220 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $29,410 at the bottom tenth to $56,900 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $28,841 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $30,383 of this wage reaches your account, because New Hampshire takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 49 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 $39,220. 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 ($29,410) and the ninetieth ($56,900) 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 $28,841 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 $30,383 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.