Psychiatric Technicians in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,064
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$6,596
14.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,133
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
$44,660
Kept after tax
$38,064
Worth in national money
$36,133
State rank
23
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays psychiatric technicians around $44,660 at the midpoint, 23 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, psychiatric technicians lands at 410. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $44,660, tax leaves $38,064 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $36,133 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $50,860, since top earners drag the number up.
- For psychiatric technicians the New Hampshire median is $44,660, ranking 23 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 410 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After tax, $38,064 remains from the New Hampshire median of $44,660 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $36,133 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $50,860 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Psychiatric Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,530 |
| This salary | $44,660 |
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 | $38,064 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,064 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,038 |
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 | $44,660 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,674 |
| 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 $44,660. The published range is $44,180 up to $60,530, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $38,064 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $44,660. 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 410 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $36,133 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 410.
- Reported values are medians; for psychiatric technicians in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $44,180 to $60,530. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $38,064, from $44,660, 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 410 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 23 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $36,133, worked from $44,660, 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 410 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 $50,860, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $44,180 at the bottom tenth to $60,530 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $36,133 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $38,064 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $50,860. 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 ($44,180 to $60,530) 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 $36,133 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 $38,064 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.