School Bus Monitors in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,408
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,212
13.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,763
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
$37,620
Kept after tax
$32,408
Worth in national money
$30,763
State rank
12
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays school bus monitors a middle wage of $37,620, ranking 12 of 50 states and sitting about 7.18% above the national middle.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, school bus monitors lands at 450. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $37,620, tax leaves $32,408 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $30,763 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $36,710.
- New Hampshire's median for school bus monitors is $37,620, about 7.18% above the national figure and 12 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within New Hampshire, this work ranks 450 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.
- After tax, $32,408 remains from the New Hampshire median of $37,620 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $30,763 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $36,710 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: School Bus Monitors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $22,950 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,060 |
| This salary | $37,620 |
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 | $32,408 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,408 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,586 |
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 | $37,620 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,128 |
| 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 $37,620. The published range is $22,950 up to $47,060, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $32,408, worked from $37,620. 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 450 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $30,763 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 450.
- Reported values are medians; for school bus monitors in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $22,950 to $47,060. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $32,408, on $37,620 for work ranking 450 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 450 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $30,763, worked from $37,620, 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 450 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $22,950 at the bottom tenth to $47,060 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $30,763 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $32,408 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($22,950 to $47,060) 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 $30,763 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 $32,408 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.