Real Estate Sales Agents in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,478
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,142
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,018
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
$57,620
Kept after tax
$48,478
Worth in national money
$46,018
State rank
22
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays real estate sales agents around $57,620 at the midpoint, 22 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 288.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $57,620 the take-home is $48,478. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $46,018 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $70,160, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For real estate sales agents the New Hampshire median is $57,620, ranking 22 of 48 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.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, real estate sales agents sits at 288 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $48,478 for real estate sales agents, from $57,620. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $46,018. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $70,160 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Real Estate Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,950 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,780 |
| This salary | $57,620 |
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 | $48,478 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,478 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,869 |
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 | $57,620 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,679 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $57,620 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $43,950 and the ninetieth is $97,780 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $48,478, from $57,620, 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 288 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $46,018, the adjusted value of that $57,620 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 288 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $57,620 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $43,950 to $97,780. 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 $48,478 from $57,620. 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 288 of 488 locally.
- This $46,018 adjusted figure, worked from $57,620, 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 288 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 288 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $70,160, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $43,950 at the bottom tenth to $97,780 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 $46,018 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $48,478 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 $70,160. 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 ($43,950) and the ninetieth ($97,780) 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 $46,018 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 $48,478 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.