Pharmacy Aides in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,191
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,159
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,557
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
$37,350
Kept after tax
$32,191
Worth in national money
$30,557
State rank
21
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 21 of 48 states for pharmacy aides, with a middle wage of $37,350. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, pharmacy aides ranks 454. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $37,350 the take-home is $32,191; in national-average money that behaves like $30,557. The average comes to $37,720, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 21 of 48 for pharmacy aides at $37,350. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, pharmacy aides ranks 454 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.
- Take-home for pharmacy aides in New Hampshire, on $37,350, is $32,191; deflated by the state's price level, $30,557. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $37,720 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Pharmacy Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $42,710 |
| This salary | $37,350 |
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 | $32,191 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,191 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,569 |
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 | $37,350 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,107 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,350 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,270 and the ninetieth is $42,710 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $32,191 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $37,350. 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 454 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $30,557 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 454.
- The New Hampshire median of $37,350 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,270 to $42,710. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $32,191, from $37,350, 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 454 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $30,557, worked from $37,350, 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 454 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,270 at the tenth percentile, $42,710 at the ninetieth.
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 $30,557 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $32,191 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. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,270 to $42,710) 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 $30,557 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 $32,191 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.