Ophthalmic Medical Technicians in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,640
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,470
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,527
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
$49,110
Kept after tax
$41,640
Worth in national money
$39,527
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for ophthalmic medical technicians is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $49,110, putting the state 11 of 51 — about 7.77% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 350 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $49,110 the take-home is $41,640; in national-average money that behaves like $39,527. The average comes to $51,940, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For ophthalmic medical technicians, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $49,110, ranking 11 of 51 and running about 7.77% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Ophthalmic medical technicians ranks 350 of 488 occupations in New Hampshire by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for ophthalmic medical technicians in New Hampshire, on $49,110, is $41,640; deflated by the state's price level, $39,527. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $51,940 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,380 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,930 |
| This salary | $49,110 |
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 | $41,640 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,640 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,323 |
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 | $49,110 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,019 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,110 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,380 and the ninetieth is $63,930 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $41,640, from $49,110, 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 350 of 488 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,527, the adjusted value of that $49,110 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 350 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $49,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,380 to $63,930. 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 $41,640 from $49,110. 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 350 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $39,527 — the adjusted value of that $49,110 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 350 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 $51,940, 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 — $39,380 at the tenth percentile, $63,930 at the ninetieth.
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 $39,527 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $41,640 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?
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 $51,940. 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 ($39,380 to $63,930) 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 $39,527 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 $41,640 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.