Registered Nurses in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,969
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$20,731
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$74,962
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
$99,700
Kept after tax
$78,969
Worth in national money
$74,962
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for registered nurses is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $99,700, putting the state 16 of 51 — about 2.2% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in New Hampshire. It ranks 77 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $99,700 the take-home is $78,969; in national-average money that behaves like $74,962. The average lands at $97,900, below the middle of the range.
- For registered nurses, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $99,700, ranking 16 of 51 and running about 2.2% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within New Hampshire, registered nurses ranks 77 of 488 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for registered nurses in New Hampshire, on $99,700, is $78,969; deflated by the state's price level, $74,962. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $97,900 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Registered Nurses
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $75,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,700 |
| Top tenth earn over | $123,190 |
| This salary | $99,700 |
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 | $78,969 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,969 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,302 |
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 | $99,700 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,706 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $99,700 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $75,610 and the ninetieth is $123,190 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $78,969, worked from $99,700. 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 77 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $74,962, the adjusted value of that $99,700 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 77 of 488 in the state.
- The New Hampshire median of $99,700 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $75,610 to $123,190. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $78,969, on $99,700 for work ranking 77 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 77 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $74,962 — the adjusted value of that $99,700 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 77 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $75,610 at the tenth percentile, $123,190 at the ninetieth.
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 $74,962 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $78,969 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($75,610 to $123,190) 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 $74,962 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 $78,969 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.