New Hampshire take-home pay by salary (2026)

What the ladder shows

The rate climbs, but never to a cliff

At $30,000 a single New Hampshire earner keeps 87.6% of gross pay; at $200,000 they keep 74.5%. The whole $170,000 climb adds $122,642 of take-home pay, so about 72.1% of the extra gross survives withholding across the ladder. No step leaves you with less than the step below it.

Which raise is worth the most

The step that keeps the most is $30,000 to $40,000, where 80.3% of the raise reaches you. The least is $120,000 to $150,000 at 68.5%. The difference is which federal bands the extra income lands in — and, above the $184,500 Social Security wage base, whether the 6.2% is still being charged at all.

Why the federal bill is the whole bill in New Hampshire

New Hampshire taxes no wage income and withholds no employee-side payroll premium, so every dollar deducted from a New Hampshire paycheck on this ladder is federal. That is why the take-home share here moves from 87.6% at $30,000 to 74.5% at $200,000 purely on federal arithmetic: the bands, the $184,500 Social Security wage base and the Additional Medicare threshold are the only three things that change across the whole ladder.

New Hampshire's interest and dividends tax never reached wages, and it ended with 2024

New Hampshire's Interest and Dividends Tax was a tax on investment income rather than on work. It sat in RSA chapter 77, titled "Taxation of Incomes", and the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration describes it as "a tax assessed on interest and dividend income." The Department is explicit about pay: the state "does not have an income tax on an individual's reported W-2 wages."

That tax is now gone as well. The Department records that it was assessed at 5% for tax periods ending before 31 December 2023, at 4% for periods ending on or after that date, and at 3% for periods ending on or after 31 December 2024, and that it "was repealed for taxable periods beginning after December 31, 2024." The legislature's text of chapter 77 now reads only that the entire chapter was repealed by a 2021 act, effective 1 January 2025.

New Hampshire has taxed wages before, but only the wages of people living in other states. The Commuters Income Tax took 4% of a nonresident's New Hampshire-derived income above a $2,000 exemption, and employers had to withhold it. On 19 March 1975, in Austin v. New Hampshire, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the tax violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause, because it fell exclusively on nonresidents' incomes.

For a salaried employee the 2025 repeal changed nothing on the pay stub, because wages sat outside the tax throughout. It matters to a resident with savings or a brokerage account, who no longer owes the Interest and Dividends Tax for taxable periods beginning in 2025 or later. On a New Hampshire salary anywhere on this ladder, each dollar withheld goes to federal tax, Social Security or Medicare.

How these figures were computed

Every figure is computed at build time by the same open paycheck engine behind the New Hampshire paycheck calculator, from the 2026 tax data file in this repository. Federal tax uses the 2026 brackets after the $16,100 single standard deduction; Social Security is 6.2% up to the $184,500 wage base and Medicare 1.45% with no cap; New Hampshire levies no income tax on wages, so there is nothing to compute on that line. Nothing on this page is hand-typed, and nothing is fetched: a person updates the tax data file when a figure changes and the next build recomputes all 10 rows.

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Every figure on this ladder is in the open dataset behind it, free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0): the full per-rung CSV (all 51 US jurisdictions at every salary level) or one row per state.

Source: Tools Berry, tools-berry.com. 2026 take-home pay computed from IRS and state tax agency rate schedules, deductions and statutes.