Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$84,175
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$22,925
21.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,904
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
$107,100
Kept after tax
$84,175
Worth in national money
$79,904
State rank
11
of 46 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 $107,100, ranking 11 of 46 states and sitting about 2.68% above the national middle.
- Within New Hampshire this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 47 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $107,100, tax leaves $84,175 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $79,904 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $108,730, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Hampshire's median for software quality assurance analysts and testers is $107,100, about 2.68% above the national figure and 11 of 46 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation New Hampshire publishes a median for, software quality assurance analysts and testers sits 47 of 488 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After tax, $84,175 remains from the New Hampshire median of $107,100 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $79,904 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $108,730 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $107,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $160,190 |
| This salary | $107,100 |
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 | $84,175 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $84,175 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,718 |
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 | $107,100 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,280 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of software quality assurance analysts and testers in New Hampshire earn under $107,100 and half over. The published range runs $56,190 at the tenth percentile to $160,190 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $84,175, worked from $107,100. 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 47 of 488.
- Two cautions on $79,904, the adjusted value of that $107,100 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 47 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for software quality assurance analysts and testers in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $56,190 to $160,190; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $84,175, on $107,100 for work ranking 47 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 47 of 488 in the state.
- This $79,904 adjusted figure, worked from $107,100, 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 47 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 47 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $56,190 and the top tenth $160,190 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $79,904 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $84,175 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. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($56,190) and the ninetieth ($160,190) 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 $79,904 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 $84,175 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.