Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$77,745
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$20,215
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$73,800
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
$97,960
Kept after tax
$77,745
Worth in national money
$73,800
State rank
33
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in New Hampshire. The middle earner gets $97,960. That is 33 of 49 states, and about 6.63% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 488 occupations New Hampshire reports, this job comes in at 81 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $97,960 the take-home is $77,745. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $73,800 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $110,980, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products, New Hampshire sits in the lower band at $97,960, ranking 33 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 6.63%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products ranks 81 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $77,745 for sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products, from $97,960. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $73,800. ⚠️ 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 $110,980 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,250 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $176,890 |
| This salary | $97,960 |
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 | $77,745 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,745 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,205 |
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 | $97,960 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,571 |
| 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 $97,960. The published range is $56,250 up to $176,890, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $77,745 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $97,960. 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 81 of 488.
- Two cautions on $73,800, the adjusted value of that $97,960 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 81 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $56,250 to $176,890. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $77,745, from $97,960, 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 81 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 49 for it.
- This $73,800 adjusted figure, worked from $97,960, 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 81 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 81 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 $110,980 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $56,250 at the bottom tenth to $176,890 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $73,800 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $77,745 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $110,980. 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 ($56,250) and the ninetieth ($176,890) 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 $73,800 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 $77,745 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.