Office Machine Operators, Except Computer in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,366
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$4,224
13.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$26,927
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
$32,590
Kept after tax
$28,366
Worth in national money
$26,927
State rank
46
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in New Hampshire. The middle earner gets $32,590. That is 46 of 47 states, and about 20.43% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, this job lands at 477. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $32,590 the take-home is $28,366. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $26,927 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $35,440, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For office machine operators, except computer, New Hampshire sits in the lower band at $32,590, ranking 46 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 20.43%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 477 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $28,366 for office machine operators, except computer, from $32,590. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $26,927. ⚠️ 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 $35,440 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $32,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,300 |
| This salary | $32,590 |
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 | $28,366 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $28,366 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,264 |
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 | $32,590 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,738 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $32,590 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $30,700 and the ninetieth is $47,300 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $28,366, worked from $32,590. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 477 of 488.
- Two cautions on $26,927, the adjusted value of that $32,590 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 477 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $32,590 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $30,700 to $47,300. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $28,366, on $32,590 for work ranking 477 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 477 of 488 in the state.
- This $26,927 adjusted figure, worked from $32,590, 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 477 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 477 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 $35,440, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $30,700 and the top tenth $47,300, so most people doing this work in New Hampshire sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $26,927 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $28,366 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $35,440. 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 ($30,700 to $47,300) 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 $26,927 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 $28,366 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.