Occupational Therapists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,854
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$16,046
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,411
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
$83,900
Kept after tax
$67,854
Worth in national money
$64,411
State rank
50
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Hampshire pays occupational therapists a middle wage of $83,900, 50 of 51 states and about 16.38% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, occupational therapists comes in at 108 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $83,900, tax leaves $67,854 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $64,411 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $89,080, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire's $83,900 median for occupational therapists places it 50 of 51 states, about 16.38% 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.
- Occupational therapists ranks 108 of 488 occupations by median in New Hampshire, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- After tax, $67,854 remains from the New Hampshire median of $83,900 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $64,411 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $89,080 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Occupational Therapists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,050 |
| This salary | $83,900 |
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 | $67,854 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,854 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,415 |
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 | $83,900 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,480 |
| 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 $83,900. The published range is $64,150 up to $115,050, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $67,854 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $83,900. 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 108 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $64,411 uses one figure for the whole of New Hampshire. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 108.
- Reported values are medians; for occupational therapists in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $64,150 to $115,050. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $67,854, from $83,900, 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 108 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 50 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $64,411, worked from $83,900, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Hampshire address, on work sitting at 108 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $89,080 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $64,150 at the bottom tenth to $115,050 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $64,411 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $67,854 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $89,080. 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 ($64,150 to $115,050) 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 $64,411 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 $67,854 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.