Postsecondary Teachers, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,096
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$14,884
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,793
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
$79,980
Kept after tax
$65,096
Worth in national money
$61,793
State rank
10
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays this job a middle wage of $79,980, ranking 10 of 48 states and sitting about 3.01% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 138.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $79,980 the take-home is $65,096; in national-average money that behaves like $61,793. The average lands at $75,120, below the middle of the range.
- New Hampshire's median for postsecondary teachers, all other is $79,980, about 3.01% above the national figure and 10 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, postsecondary teachers, all other sits at 138 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for postsecondary teachers, all other in New Hampshire, on $79,980, is $65,096; deflated by the state's price level, $61,793. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $75,120 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Postsecondary Teachers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,930 |
| This salary | $79,980 |
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 | $65,096 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,096 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,195 |
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 | $79,980 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,176 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of postsecondary teachers, all other in New Hampshire earn under $79,980 and half over. The published range runs $39,490 at the tenth percentile to $97,930 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $65,096 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $79,980. 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 138 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 $61,793, the adjusted value of that $79,980 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 138 of 488 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for postsecondary teachers, all other in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,490 to $97,930; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $65,096, from $79,980, 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 138 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $61,793 — the adjusted value of that $79,980 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 138 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $75,120, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $39,490 at the bottom tenth to $97,930 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $61,793 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $65,096 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $75,120. 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 ($39,490) and the ninetieth ($97,930) 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 $61,793 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 $65,096 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.