Tree Trimmers and Pruners in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,117
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$9,543
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,574
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
$59,660
Kept after tax
$50,117
Worth in national money
$47,574
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Hampshire pays tree trimmers and pruners a middle wage of $59,660, ranking 12 of 49 states and sitting about 17.07% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Tree trimmers and pruners ranks 273 among 488 occupations New Hampshire publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $59,660, tax leaves $50,117 — and because New Hampshire is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $47,574 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $56,750.
- New Hampshire's median for tree trimmers and pruners is $59,660, about 17.07% above the national figure and 12 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 273 of 488 in New Hampshire places tree trimmers and pruners in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $50,117 remains from the New Hampshire median of $59,660 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $47,574 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $56,750 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Tree Trimmers and Pruners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,000 |
| This salary | $59,660 |
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 | $50,117 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,117 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,000 |
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 | $59,660 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,837 |
| 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 $59,660. The published range is $47,320 up to $63,000, 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 $50,117, worked from $59,660. 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 273 of 488.
- Two cautions on $47,574, the adjusted value of that $59,660 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 273 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for tree trimmers and pruners in New Hampshire the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,320 to $63,000. 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 $50,117, on $59,660 for work ranking 273 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 273 of 488 in the state.
- This $47,574 adjusted figure, worked from $59,660, 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 273 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 273 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 $56,750, 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 $47,320 at the bottom tenth to $63,000 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $47,574 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $50,117 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. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $56,750. 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 ($47,320 to $63,000) 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 $47,574 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 $50,117 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.