Protective Service Workers, All Other in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$71,413
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$17,547
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,790
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
$88,960
Kept after tax
$71,413
Worth in national money
$67,790
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $88,960, which ranks 1 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 109.12% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, this job comes in at 97 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $88,960, tax leaves $71,413 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $67,790 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $83,910.
- New Hampshire ranks 1 of 51 states publishing a median for protective service workers, all other, at $88,960 — about 109.12% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Protective service workers, all other ranks 97 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.
- After tax, $71,413 remains from the New Hampshire median of $88,960 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $67,790 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $83,910 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Protective Service Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $88,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,380 |
| This salary | $88,960 |
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 | $71,413 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $71,413 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,699 |
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 | $88,960 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,873 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $88,960 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $56,770 and the ninetieth is $101,380 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $71,413, from $88,960, 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 97 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $67,790, the adjusted value of that $88,960 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Hampshire. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 97 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $88,960 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $56,770 to $101,380. 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 $71,413 from $88,960. 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 97 of 488 locally.
- This $67,790 adjusted figure, worked from $88,960, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 97 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 97 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 $83,910 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $56,770 at the bottom tenth to $101,380 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $67,790 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $71,413 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
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 $83,910. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($56,770 to $101,380) 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 $67,790 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 $71,413 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.