Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,663
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,677
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,093
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
$60,340
Kept after tax
$50,663
Worth in national money
$48,093
State rank
3
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays this job a middle wage of $60,340, ranking 3 of 50 states and sitting about 16.92% above the national middle.
- Against other work in New Hampshire, this sits in the middle: 262 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $60,340, tax leaves $50,663 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $48,093 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $61,080, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire's median for separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders is $60,340, about 16.92% above the national figure and 3 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.
- Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 262 of 488 occupations in New Hampshire by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After tax, $50,663 remains from the New Hampshire median of $60,340 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $48,093 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $61,080 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,750 |
| This salary | $60,340 |
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 | $50,663 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,663 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,043 |
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 | $60,340 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,890 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $60,340 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $43,080 and the ninetieth is $83,750 — 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 $50,663, worked from $60,340. 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 262 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $48,093 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 262.
- The New Hampshire median of $60,340 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $43,080 to $83,750. 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 $50,663, on $60,340 for work ranking 262 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 262 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $48,093, worked from $60,340, 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 262 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $43,080 at the bottom tenth to $83,750 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $48,093 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $50,663 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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($43,080 to $83,750) 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 $48,093 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 $50,663 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.