Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,213
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$6,877
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,224
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
$46,090
Kept after tax
$39,213
Worth in national money
$37,224
State rank
17
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays this job around $46,090 at the midpoint, 17 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, this job lands at 395. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $46,090 the take-home is $39,213. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $37,224 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is lower, $44,580, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood the New Hampshire median is $46,090, ranking 17 of 46 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 395 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $39,213 for sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood, from $46,090. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $37,224. ⚠️ 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 $44,580 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $32,220 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,090 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,910 |
| This salary | $46,090 |
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 | $39,213 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,213 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,130 |
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 | $46,090 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,785 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,090 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $32,220 and the ninetieth is $56,910 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $39,213, from $46,090, 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 395 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $37,224, the adjusted value of that $46,090 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 395 of 488 locally.
- The New Hampshire median of $46,090 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $32,220 to $56,910. 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 $39,213 from $46,090. 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 395 of 488 locally.
- This $37,224 adjusted figure, worked from $46,090, 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 395 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 395 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 $44,580, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $32,220 and the top tenth $56,910, so most people doing this work in New Hampshire sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $37,224 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $39,213 survives, because New Hampshire levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 46 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 $44,580. 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 ($32,220 to $56,910) 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 $37,224 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 $39,213 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.