Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$27,707
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$4,063
12.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$26,301
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
$31,770
Kept after tax
$27,707
Worth in national money
$26,301
State rank
44
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Hampshire pays this job a middle wage of $31,770, 44 of 51 states and about 14.55% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 480. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $31,770 the take-home is $27,707; in national-average money that behaves like $26,301. The average comes to $33,650, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire's $31,770 median for motor vehicle operators, all other places it 44 of 51 states, about 14.55% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, motor vehicle operators, all other ranks 480 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 motor vehicle operators, all other in New Hampshire, on $31,770, is $27,707; deflated by the state's price level, $26,301. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $33,650 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $31,770 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,680 |
| This salary | $31,770 |
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 | $27,707 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $27,707 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,211 |
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 | $31,770 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,674 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of motor vehicle operators, all other in New Hampshire earn under $31,770 and half over. The published range runs $26,470 at the tenth percentile to $45,680 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $27,707 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $31,770. 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 480 of 488.
- Two cautions on $26,301, the adjusted value of that $31,770 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 480 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for motor vehicle operators, all other in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $26,470 to $45,680; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $27,707, from $31,770, 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 480 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 44 of 51 for it.
- This $26,301 adjusted figure, worked from $31,770, 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 480 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 480 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $33,650, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $26,470 at the tenth percentile, $45,680 at the ninetieth.
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 $26,301 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $27,707 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $33,650. 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 ($26,470 to $45,680) 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 $26,301 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 $27,707 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.