Manchester-Nashua, NH Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Manchester-Nashua, NH - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Manchester-Nashua, NH moved from $54,410 in May 2024 to $56,530 in May 2025 (+3.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Manchester-Nashua, NH sits +0.8 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Software Developers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Manchester-Nashua, NH
Software Developers publishes $162,090 here versus $135,980 nationally (+19.2%; 4,370metro-area jobs). Next is General and Operations Managers at $124,990 locally versus $105,770 nationally (+18.2%).
- Software Developers$162,090 in Manchester-Nashua, NH sits 19.2% above the national Software Developers median of $135,980 (4,370 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$124,990 in Manchester-Nashua, NH sits 18.2% above the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (4,990 published local jobs).
- Customer Service Representatives$49,630 in Manchester-Nashua, NH sits 10.9% above the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (4,680 published local jobs).
- Office Clerks, General$49,570 in Manchester-Nashua, NH sits 10.1% above the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (3,400 published local jobs).
Software Developers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Manchester-Nashua, NH; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 31700 · Manchester-Nashua, NH $72K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-ELEV · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #32/528
- RPP-ELEV 105.7
- OCC-MOST 432 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $348K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.8 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Burlington-South…
- BOOK-FULL 420 rows · May 2025
Read with Burlington-South Burlington, VT (+$22 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Manchester-Nashua, NH
Employment scale inside Manchester-Nashua, NH's top-pay list
Software Developers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Manchester-Nashua, NH's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 4,370 jobs · $162,090
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,470 jobs · $175,530
- 3. Electrical Engineers 1,050 jobs · $159,360
- 4. Architectural and Engineering Managers 970 jobs · $212,050
- 5. Industrial Production Managers 700 jobs · $174,360
- 6. Sales Managers 680 jobs · $161,410
- 7. Managers, All Other 470 jobs · $152,690
- 8. Marketing Managers 360 jobs · $162,850
- 9. Pharmacists 350 jobs · $143,000
- 10. Human Resources Managers 330 jobs · $142,600
- 11. Purchasing Managers 240 jobs · $165,870
- 12. Physicians, All Other 200 jobs · $347,620
- 13. Chief Executives 190 jobs · $196,990
- 14. Dentists, General 190 jobs · $177,970
- 15. General Internal Medicine Physicians 180 jobs · $317,680
- 16. Computer Hardware Engineers 130 jobs · $174,140
- 17. Pediatricians, General 80 jobs · $287,040
- 18. Training and Development Managers 80 jobs · $142,860
Occupations Tracked
432
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$71,946
employment-weighted, 420 complete rows
Top Salary
$347,620
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
105.7
6% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Manchester-Nashua, NH
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $347,620 |
| 2 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $317,680 |
| 3 | Pediatricians, General | $287,040 |
| 4 | Nurse Anesthetists | $262,240 |
| 5 | Family Medicine Physicians | $256,770 |
| 6 | Podiatrists | $222,530 |
| 7 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $212,050 |
| 8 | Chief Executives | $196,990 |
| 9 | Dentists, General | $177,970 |
| 10 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $175,530 |
| 11 | Industrial Production Managers | $174,360 |
| 12 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $174,140 |
| 13 | Purchasing Managers | $165,870 |
| 14 | Marketing Managers | $162,850 |
| 15 | Software Developers | $162,090 |
| 16 | Sales Managers | $161,410 |
| 17 | Natural Sciences Managers | $160,040 |
| 18 | Electrical Engineers | $159,360 |
| 19 | Commercial Pilots | $157,210 |
| 20 | Managers, All Other | $152,690 |
| 21 | Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors | $152,360 |
| 22 | Compensation and Benefits Managers | $151,120 |
| 23 | Pharmacists | $143,000 |
| 24 | Training and Development Managers | $142,860 |
| 25 | Human Resources Managers | $142,600 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Manchester-Nashua, NH
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary | $23,100 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $24,960 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $27,370 |
| Bartenders | $29,050 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $29,650 |
| Telemarketers | $29,680 |
| Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials | $30,390 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $30,690 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $30,840 |
| Office Machine Operators, Except Computer | $31,040 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NH
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside NH. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($71,946 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Manchester-Nashua, NH wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Manchester-Nashua, NH at $347,620/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $71,946 adjusts to about $68,094 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 105.7. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for NH before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.