Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing in New Hampshire
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,503
after federal, FICA and New Hampshire tax
Tax takes
$6,947
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,498
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
$46,450
Kept after tax
$39,503
Worth in national money
$37,498
State rank
13
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Hampshire's middle earner gets $46,450, putting the state 13 of 47 — about 7.08% ahead of the national figure.
- Within New Hampshire this is lower-paid work. Of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 392. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $46,450 the take-home is $39,503. But New Hampshire costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $37,498 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $48,260, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing, New Hampshire sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $46,450, ranking 13 of 47 and running about 7.08% 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.
- Against every occupation New Hampshire reports, woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ranks 392 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and New Hampshire income tax is $39,503 for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing, from $46,450. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $37,498. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $48,260 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,040 |
| This salary | $46,450 |
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 | $39,503 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,503 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,153 |
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 | $46,450 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,813 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,450 as a midpoint for New Hampshire, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,130 and the ninetieth is $62,040 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New Hampshire's $39,503, worked from $46,450. 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 392 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $37,498 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 392.
- The New Hampshire median of $46,450 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,130 to $62,040. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The New Hampshire take-home of $39,503, on $46,450 for work ranking 392 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 392 of 488 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $37,498, worked from $46,450, 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 392 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 $48,260 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $39,130 at the bottom tenth to $62,040 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 $37,498 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $39,503 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. 47 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 $48,260. 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 ($39,130 to $62,040) 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 $37,498 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 $39,503 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.