Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$26,293
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$3,717
12.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$24,959
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
$30,010
Kept after tax
$26,293
Worth in national money
$24,959
State rank
39
of 46 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 $30,010. That is 39 of 46 states, and about 27.86% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, this job lands at 484. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $30,010 the take-home is $26,293; in national-average money that behaves like $24,959. The average comes to $32,740, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For personal care and service workers, all other, New Hampshire sits in the lower band at $30,010, ranking 39 of 46 and trailing the national median by about 27.86%. 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 484 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.
- Take-home for personal care and service workers, all other in New Hampshire, on $30,010, is $26,293; deflated by the state's price level, $24,959. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $32,740 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $30,010 |
| Top tenth earn over | $44,680 |
| This salary | $30,010 |
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 | $26,293 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $26,293 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,098 |
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 | $30,010 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,513 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $30,010 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $26,410 and the ninetieth is $44,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $26,293, from $30,010, 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 484 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $24,959, the adjusted value of that $30,010 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 484 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $30,010 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $26,410 to $44,680. 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 $26,293 from $30,010. 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 484 of 488 locally.
- This $24,959 adjusted figure, worked from $30,010, 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 484 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 484 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 $32,740, 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 — $26,410 at the tenth percentile, $44,680 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New Hampshire run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $24,959 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $26,293 of this wage reaches your account, because New Hampshire takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 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 $32,740. 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 ($26,410 to $44,680) 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 $24,959 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 $26,293 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.