Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,591
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$16,779
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,060
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
$86,370
Kept after tax
$69,591
Worth in national money
$66,060
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $86,370, putting the state 12 of 51 — about 16.2% ahead of the national figure.
- Within New Hampshire this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 101 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $86,370 the take-home is $69,591; in national-average money that behaves like $66,060. The average lands at $82,520, below the middle of the range.
- For telecommunications line installers and repairers, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $86,370, ranking 12 of 51 and running about 16.2% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Ranked against every occupation New Hampshire publishes a median for, telecommunications line installers and repairers sits 101 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.
- Take-home for telecommunications line installers and repairers in New Hampshire, on $86,370, is $69,591; deflated by the state's price level, $66,060. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $82,520 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $86,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,960 |
| This salary | $86,370 |
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 | $69,591 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $69,591 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,554 |
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 | $86,370 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,672 |
| 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 $86,370. The published range is $58,210 up to $100,960, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $69,591 take-home in New Hampshire comes from $86,370. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 101 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Hampshire, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $66,060, the adjusted value of that $86,370 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 101 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for telecommunications line installers and repairers in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $58,210 to $100,960. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $69,591, from $86,370, assumes a single New Hampshire filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 101 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Hampshire, so $66,060 — the adjusted value of that $86,370 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 101 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 $82,520, 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 — $58,210 at the tenth percentile, $100,960 at the ninetieth.
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 $66,060 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $69,591 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 $82,520. 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 ($58,210 to $100,960) 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 $66,060 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 $69,591 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.