Public Safety Telecommunicators in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,976
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,264
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,491
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
$58,240
Kept after tax
$48,976
Worth in national money
$46,491
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays this job around $58,240 at the midpoint, 19 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 283 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $58,240, tax leaves $48,976 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $46,491 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $57,580.
- For public safety telecommunicators the New Hampshire median is $58,240, ranking 19 of 51 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.
- Position 283 of 488 in New Hampshire places public safety telecommunicators in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $48,976 remains from the New Hampshire median of $58,240 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $46,491 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $57,580 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Public Safety Telecommunicators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,600 |
| This salary | $58,240 |
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 | $48,976 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,976 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,909 |
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 | $58,240 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,727 |
| 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 public safety telecommunicators in New Hampshire earn under $58,240 and half over. The published range runs $45,810 at the tenth percentile to $70,600 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $48,976 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $58,240. 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 283 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,491 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 283.
- Figures are distribution medians for public safety telecommunicators in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $45,810 to $70,600; 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 $48,976, from $58,240, 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 283 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,491, worked from $58,240, 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 283 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $45,810 at the tenth percentile, $70,600 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 $46,491 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $48,976 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($45,810 to $70,600) 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 $46,491 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 $48,976 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.