Surgical Technologists in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,621
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$13,419
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,494
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
$75,040
Kept after tax
$61,621
Worth in national money
$58,494
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for surgical technologists. The middle earner takes $75,040, which ranks 14 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 16.07% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations New Hampshire reports figures for, this is number 162.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $75,040, tax leaves $61,621 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $58,494 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $72,380.
- New Hampshire ranks 14 of 51 states publishing a median for surgical technologists, at $75,040 — about 16.07% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- In New Hampshire's occupational distribution, surgical technologists sits at 162 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- After tax, $61,621 remains from the New Hampshire median of $75,040 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $58,494 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $72,380 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Surgical Technologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $87,560 |
| This salary | $75,040 |
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 | $61,621 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,621 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,918 |
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 | $75,040 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,793 |
| 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 $75,040. The published range is $56,760 up to $87,560, 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 $61,621, worked from $75,040. 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 162 of 488.
- Two cautions on $58,494, the adjusted value of that $75,040 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 162 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for surgical technologists in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $56,760 to $87,560. 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 $61,621, on $75,040 for work ranking 162 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 162 of 488 in the state.
- This $58,494 adjusted figure, worked from $75,040, 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 162 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 162 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $72,380, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $56,760 at the bottom tenth to $87,560 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $58,494 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $61,621 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
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 $72,380. 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 ($56,760 to $87,560) 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 $58,494 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 $61,621 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.