Substitute Teachers, Short-Term in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,294
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$4,696
13.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,757
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
$34,990
Kept after tax
$30,294
Worth in national money
$28,757
State rank
35
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. New Hampshire pays substitute teachers, short-term a middle wage of $34,990, 35 of 50 states and about 16.03% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, substitute teachers, short-term ranks 468. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $34,990 the take-home is $30,294; in national-average money that behaves like $28,757. The average comes to $38,630, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire's $34,990 median for substitute teachers, short-term places it 35 of 50 states, about 16.03% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, substitute teachers, short-term ranks 468 of 488, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for substitute teachers, short-term in New Hampshire, on $34,990, is $30,294; deflated by the state's price level, $28,757. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $38,630 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Substitute Teachers, Short-Term
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $34,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,490 |
| This salary | $34,990 |
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 | $30,294 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,294 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,418 |
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 | $34,990 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,924 |
| 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 substitute teachers, short-term in New Hampshire earn under $34,990 and half over. The published range runs $28,870 at the tenth percentile to $46,490 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $30,294, from $34,990, 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 468 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $28,757, the adjusted value of that $34,990 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 468 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for substitute teachers, short-term in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $28,870 to $46,490; 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.
- Take-home for New Hampshire is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $30,294 from $34,990. 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 468 of 488 locally.
- This $28,757 adjusted figure, worked from $34,990, 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 468 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 468 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 $38,630, 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?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $28,870 at the tenth percentile, $46,490 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 $28,757 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $30,294 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?
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.
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 $38,630. 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 ($28,870 to $46,490) 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 $28,757 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 $30,294 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.