Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,027
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,853
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,250
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
$40,880
Kept after tax
$35,027
Worth in national money
$33,250
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $40,880, which ranks 17 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 3.78% above the national middle.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 429. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $40,880 the take-home is $35,027; in national-average money that behaves like $33,250. The average comes to $44,320, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 17 of 51 states publishing a median for merchandise displayers and window trimmers, at $40,880 — about 3.78% 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.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, merchandise displayers and window trimmers ranks 429 of 488, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for merchandise displayers and window trimmers in New Hampshire, on $40,880, is $35,027; deflated by the state's price level, $33,250. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $44,320 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,680 |
| This salary | $40,880 |
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 | $35,027 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,027 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,795 |
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 | $40,880 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,381 |
| 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 $40,880. The published range is $36,560 up to $59,680, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $35,027, from $40,880, 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 429 of 488 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $33,250, the adjusted value of that $40,880 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 429 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for merchandise displayers and window trimmers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,560 to $59,680. 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 $35,027 from $40,880. 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 429 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $33,250 — the adjusted value of that $40,880 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 429 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 $44,320, 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?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,560 at the tenth percentile, $59,680 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 $33,250 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $35,027 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $44,320. 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 ($36,560 to $59,680) 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 $33,250 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 $35,027 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.