Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,475
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$4,495
13.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,979
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
$33,970
Kept after tax
$29,475
Worth in national money
$27,979
State rank
15
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New Hampshire is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $33,970, which ranks 15 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 3.22% above the national middle.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 474. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- New Hampshire is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $33,970 the take-home is $29,475; in national-average money that behaves like $27,979. The average comes to $35,490, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New Hampshire ranks 15 of 50 states publishing a median for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers, at $33,970 — about 3.22% 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.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers ranks 474 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 ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers in New Hampshire, on $33,970, is $29,475; deflated by the state's price level, $27,979. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $35,490 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,300 |
| This salary | $33,970 |
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 | $29,475 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $29,475 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,352 |
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 | $33,970 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,845 |
| 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 ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers in New Hampshire earn under $33,970 and half over. The published range runs $28,430 at the tenth percentile to $46,300 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New Hampshire the take-home figure of $29,475, from $33,970, 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 474 of 488 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $27,979 uses one figure for the whole of New Hampshire. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 474.
- Figures are distribution medians for ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers in New Hampshire, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $28,430 to $46,300; 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 $29,475 from $33,970. 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 474 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $27,979, worked from $33,970, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular New Hampshire address, on work sitting at 474 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $35,490 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $28,430 at the tenth percentile, $46,300 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 $27,979 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $29,475 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. 50 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 $35,490. 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 ($28,430 to $46,300) 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 $27,979 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 $29,475 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.