Physics Teachers, Postsecondary in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,512
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$20,538
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$74,528
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
$99,050
Kept after tax
$78,512
Worth in national money
$74,528
State rank
21
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. New Hampshire is 21 of 47 states for physics teachers, postsecondary, with a middle wage of $99,050. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, physics teachers, postsecondary comes in at 78 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $99,050 the take-home is $78,512; in national-average money that behaves like $74,528. The average comes to $134,360, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 21 of 47 for physics teachers, postsecondary at $99,050. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Physics teachers, postsecondary ranks 78 of 488 occupations by median in New Hampshire, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for physics teachers, postsecondary in New Hampshire, on $99,050, is $78,512; deflated by the state's price level, $74,528. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $134,360 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Physics Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $235,610 |
| This salary | $99,050 |
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 | $78,512 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,512 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,266 |
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 | $99,050 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,655 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $99,050 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $53,630 and the ninetieth is $235,610 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $78,512, from $99,050, 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 78 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 $74,528, the adjusted value of that $99,050 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 78 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $99,050 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $53,630 to $235,610. 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 $78,512 from $99,050. 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 78 of 488 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $74,528 — the adjusted value of that $99,050 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 78 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $134,360 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $53,630 at the bottom tenth to $235,610 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $74,528 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $78,512 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. 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 $134,360. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($53,630) and the ninetieth ($235,610) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $74,528 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 $78,512 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.