Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,071
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,619
14.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,342
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
$39,690
Kept after tax
$34,071
Worth in national money
$32,342
State rank
41
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Hampshire pays this job a middle wage of $39,690, 41 of 49 states and about 13.09% 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 435. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $39,690 the take-home is $34,071. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $32,342 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $40,670, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Hampshire's $39,690 median for office and administrative support workers, all other places it 41 of 49 states, about 13.09% 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, office and administrative support workers, all other ranks 435 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $34,071 for office and administrative support workers, all other, from $39,690. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $32,342. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $40,670 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $17,820 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,930 |
| This salary | $39,690 |
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 | $34,071 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,071 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,719 |
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 | $39,690 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,289 |
| 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 office and administrative support workers, all other in New Hampshire earn under $39,690 and half over. The published range runs $17,820 at the tenth percentile to $68,930 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,071 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $39,690. 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 435 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $32,342 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 435.
- Figures are distribution medians for office and administrative support workers, all other in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $17,820 to $68,930; 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 $34,071, from $39,690, 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 435 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 41 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $32,342, worked from $39,690, 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 435 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $17,820, the highest tenth $68,930, 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 $32,342 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $34,071 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($17,820) and the ninetieth ($68,930) 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 $32,342 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 $34,071 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.