Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,812
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$7,268
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,742
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
$48,080
Kept after tax
$40,812
Worth in national money
$38,742
State rank
18
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Hampshire pays this job around $48,080 at the midpoint, 18 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes, this job lands at 371. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $48,080 the take-home is $40,812; in national-average money that behaves like $38,742. The average comes to $49,000, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive the New Hampshire median is $48,080, ranking 18 of 51 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 371 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.
- Take-home for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in New Hampshire, on $48,080, is $40,812; deflated by the state's price level, $38,742. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $49,000 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,380 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,690 |
| This salary | $48,080 |
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 | $40,812 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,812 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,257 |
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 | $48,080 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,939 |
| 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 $48,080. The published range is $34,380 up to $63,690, 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 $40,812, worked from $48,080. 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 371 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $38,742 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 371.
- Reported values are medians; for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,380 to $63,690. 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 $40,812, on $48,080 for work ranking 371 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 371 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $38,742, worked from $48,080, 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 371 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,380 at the tenth percentile, $63,690 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,742 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $40,812 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?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,380 to $63,690) 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 $38,742 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 $40,812 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.