Physical Therapist Assistants in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,088
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$12,352
17.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,090
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
$71,440
Kept after tax
$59,088
Worth in national money
$56,090
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays physical therapist assistants a middle wage of $71,440, ranking 15 of 51 states and sitting about 4.47% above the national middle.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 182 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $71,440 the take-home is $59,088. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $56,090 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $72,140, because the best-paid pull it up.
- New Hampshire's median for physical therapist assistants is $71,440, about 4.47% above the national figure and 15 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Physical therapist assistants ranks 182 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $59,088 for physical therapist assistants, from $71,440. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $56,090. ⚠️ 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 $72,140 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Physical Therapist Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,540 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $71,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,940 |
| This salary | $71,440 |
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 | $59,088 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,088 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,716 |
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 | $71,440 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,318 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Hampshire earn less than $71,440. The published range is $59,540 up to $80,940, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $59,088 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $71,440. 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 182 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $56,090, the adjusted value of that $71,440 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 182 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for physical therapist assistants in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $59,540 to $80,940. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $59,088, from $71,440, 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 182 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $56,090 — the adjusted value of that $71,440 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 182 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $59,540 and the top tenth $80,940, 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?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $56,090 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $59,088 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($59,540 to $80,940) 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 $56,090 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 $59,088 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.