Marriage and Family Therapists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,414
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,616
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,856
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
$60,030
Kept after tax
$50,414
Worth in national money
$47,856
State rank
28
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for marriage and family therapists. The median is $60,030, ranking 28 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 266.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $60,030 the take-home is $50,414. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $47,856 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $67,210, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for marriage and family therapists: a median of $60,030, ranking 28 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, marriage and family therapists sits at 266 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $50,414 for marriage and family therapists, from $60,030. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $47,856. ⚠️ 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 $67,210 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
Compare this career across states
Choose your filing status and local taxes, compare pay, and keep a shortlist.Compare wage and personal-pay outcomes by state, with selected resident local taxes and saved career choices.
Pay band: Marriage and Family Therapists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,030 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,490 |
| This salary | $60,030 |
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 | $50,414 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,414 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,024 |
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 | $60,030 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,866 |
| 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 $60,030. The published range is $48,200 up to $82,490, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $50,414 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $60,030. 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 266 of 488.
- Two cautions on $47,856, the adjusted value of that $60,030 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 266 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for marriage and family therapists in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $48,200 to $82,490. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $50,414, from $60,030, 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 266 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 28 of 45 for it.
- This $47,856 adjusted figure, worked from $60,030, 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 266 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 266 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $67,210, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $48,200 at the bottom tenth to $82,490 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New Hampshire run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $47,856 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $50,414 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 $67,210. 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 ($48,200 to $82,490) 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 $47,856 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 $50,414 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.