Massage Therapists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,363
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$14,997
18.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,047
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
$80,360
Kept after tax
$65,363
Worth in national money
$62,047
State rank
5
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for massage therapists is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $80,360, putting the state 5 of 50 — about 37.49% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 136 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $80,360 the take-home is $65,363; in national-average money that behaves like $62,047. The average lands at $79,270, below the middle of the range.
- For massage therapists, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $80,360, ranking 5 of 50 and running about 37.49% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Massage therapists ranks 136 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.
- Take-home for massage therapists in New Hampshire, on $80,360, is $65,363; deflated by the state's price level, $62,047. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $79,270 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Massage Therapists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,500 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $80,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $114,400 |
| This salary | $80,360 |
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 | $65,363 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,363 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,217 |
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 | $80,360 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,206 |
| 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 $80,360. The published range is $36,500 up to $114,400, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $65,363, worked from $80,360. 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 136 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 $62,047, the adjusted value of that $80,360 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 136 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for massage therapists in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,500 to $114,400. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $65,363, on $80,360 for work ranking 136 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 136 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $62,047 — the adjusted value of that $80,360 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 136 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,500, the highest tenth $114,400, 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 $62,047 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $65,363 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,500) and the ninetieth ($114,400) 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 $62,047 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 $65,363 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.