Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,067
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$5,373
14.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,389
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
$38,440
Kept after tax
$33,067
Worth in national money
$31,389
State rank
10
of 51 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 $38,440, ranking 10 of 51 states and sitting about 4.51% above the national middle.
- Measured against other jobs in New Hampshire, this one sits low: 445 of 488 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $38,440 the take-home is $33,067; in national-average money that behaves like $31,389. The average comes to $40,140, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire's median for teaching assistants, except postsecondary is $38,440, about 4.51% above the national figure and 10 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Teaching assistants, except postsecondary occupies position 445 of 488 in New Hampshire's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Take-home for teaching assistants, except postsecondary in New Hampshire, on $38,440, is $33,067; deflated by the state's price level, $31,389. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $40,140 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,780 |
| This salary | $38,440 |
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 | $33,067 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,067 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,639 |
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 | $38,440 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,192 |
| 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 teaching assistants, except postsecondary in New Hampshire earn under $38,440 and half over. The published range runs $28,920 at the tenth percentile to $48,780 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $33,067, from $38,440, 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 445 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $31,389, the adjusted value of that $38,440 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 445 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for teaching assistants, except postsecondary in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $28,920 to $48,780; 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 $33,067 from $38,440. 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 445 of 488 locally.
- This $31,389 adjusted figure, worked from $38,440, 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 445 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 445 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 $40,140, 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 — $28,920 at the tenth percentile, $48,780 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 $31,389 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $33,067 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 $40,140. 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 ($28,920 to $48,780) 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 $31,389 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 $33,067 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.