Prepress Technicians and Workers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,214
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,366
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,123
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
$48,580
Kept after tax
$41,214
Worth in national money
$39,123
State rank
22
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire sits in the middle of the pack for prepress technicians and workers. The median is $48,580, ranking 22 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 363 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $48,580 the take-home is $41,214; in national-average money that behaves like $39,123. The average lands at $47,880, below the middle of the range.
- New Hampshire occupies the middle band for prepress technicians and workers: a median of $48,580, ranking 22 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Prepress technicians and workers ranks 363 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.
- Take-home for prepress technicians and workers in New Hampshire, on $48,580, is $41,214; deflated by the state's price level, $39,123. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $47,880 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Prepress Technicians and Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,770 |
| This salary | $48,580 |
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 | $41,214 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,214 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,289 |
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 | $48,580 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,978 |
| 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 $48,580. The published range is $34,180 up to $59,770, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $41,214, worked from $48,580. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 363 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $39,123 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 363.
- Reported values are medians; for prepress technicians and workers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,180 to $59,770. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $41,214, on $48,580 for work ranking 363 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 363 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $39,123, worked from $48,580, 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 363 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,180 at the tenth percentile, $59,770 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $39,123 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,214 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,180 to $59,770) 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 $39,123 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 $41,214 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.