Nurse Practitioners in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$105,281
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$32,269
23.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$99,940
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
$137,550
Kept after tax
$105,281
Worth in national money
$99,940
State rank
10
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays nurse practitioners a middle wage of $137,550, ranking 10 of 51 states and sitting about 3.97% above the national middle.
- Within New Hampshire this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, nurse practitioners ranks 22 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $137,550, tax leaves $105,281 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $99,940 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $138,070, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire's median for nurse practitioners is $137,550, about 3.97% above the national figure and 10 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation New Hampshire publishes a median for, nurse practitioners sits 22 of 488 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After tax, $105,281 remains from the New Hampshire median of $137,550 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $99,940 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $138,070 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Nurse Practitioners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $106,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $137,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $166,240 |
| This salary | $137,550 |
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 | $105,281 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $105,281 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,402 |
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 | $137,550 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,946 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $137,550 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $106,070 and the ninetieth is $166,240 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $105,281, from $137,550, 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 22 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $99,940, the adjusted value of that $137,550 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 22 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $137,550 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $106,070 to $166,240. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $105,281 from $137,550. 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 22 of 488 locally.
- This $99,940 adjusted figure, worked from $137,550, 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 22 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 22 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $106,070 at the bottom tenth to $166,240 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $99,940 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $105,281 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($106,070 to $166,240) 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 $99,940 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 $105,281 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.