New Hampshire · 2025 pay
How much do New Hampshire Judicial Branch employees make?
$49,950typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$33,552 – $73,856what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.
TransparentNH publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.
Common jobs: Court OfficerSenior Ct Operations SpecialistCt Operations Specialist
✓ Official data from TransparentNHMatches the agency's latest releasetransparentnh.das.nh.gov ↗
How is pay spread across workers?
A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.
$33,061
$50,122
$73,662
$208,164
Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers
Typical workerright in the middle
Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers
Highest paidone person
Regular payOvertimeExtra pay
Is pay going up?
Yes. Typical pay went from $34,653 in 2016 to $49,950 in 2025 (+44%).
What changed since 2024
- +2.3%Typical pay went up from $48,812 to $49,950.
- +3.3%Typical raise for the 834 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 23% got a raise of 10% or more.
- 110 new110 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 133 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
- +44%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $34,653 to $49,950, while the number of people paid went down from 946 to 944.
The next update is expected in early 2027.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
New Hampshire Judicial Branch
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $49,220 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $192 |
| Extra pay | $710 |
| Total for the year | $50,122 |
Average of the 47 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
Matches the agency's latest release
Pay by job
Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.
| Job | People | Typical pay | Most earn | Since 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Court Officer | 150 | $23,598 | $14k – $36k | ▲ 5.4% |
| Senior Ct Operations Specialist | 127 | $48,914 | $43k – $53k | new |
| Ct Operations Specialist | 116 | $38,070 | $27k – $44k | ▲ 306.3% |
| Judicialft | 78 | $189,366 | $189k – $190k | ▲ 1.1% |
| Ct Operations Supervisor | 33 | $63,768 | $55k – $66k | new |
| Ct Monitor/Operations Specialist | 25 | $55,925 | $46k – $65k | new |
| Case Manager | 24 | $60,104 | $53k – $64k | ▲ 8.8% |
| Deputy Clerk I | 20 | $71,398 | $66k – $75k | ▲ 2.1% |
| Judicalreferee | 19 | $46,604 | $23k – $63k | new |
| Law Clerk - Superior Ct | 19 | $45,657 | $19k – $64k | ▼ 27.7% |
| Information Center Representative II | 18 | $50,394 | $47k – $54k | ▲ 4.4% |
| Deputy Clerk II | 15 | $75,695 | $72k – $80k | ▲ 4.4% |
| Information Center Representative I | 11 | $33,480 | $15k – $36k | new |
| Court Officer II | 10 | $54,046 | $45k – $68k | ▲ 14.1% |
| Court Clerk V | 9 | $93,091 | $82k – $108k | ▼ 1.3% |
| Court Services Representative III | 9 | $76,828 | $24k – $80k | new |
| Law Clerk - Supreme | 9 | $47,385 | $45k – $68k | ▼ 7.0% |
| Sas Pdiem Administrator Ret Judge-Circuit | 9 | $13,841 | $9k – $40k | new |
| Court Clerk VI | 7 | $106,633 | $101k – $120k | ▼ 2.0% |
| Administrative Court Assistant | 6 | $63,168 | $59k – $76k | ▼ 5.2% |
| Information Center Specialist | 6 | $60,143 | $56k – $62k | ▲ 7.6% |
| Support Desk Technician I | 6 | $42,375 | $19k – $54k | new |
| Child Support Hearing Officer II | 5 | $83,155 | $53k – $125k | new |
| Accounting and Payroll Specialist | 5 | $54,883 | $55k – $62k | new |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k62
- $10k – $30k153
- $30k – $50k258
- $50k – $70k218
- $70k – $90k78
- $90k – $110k43
- $110k – $150k52
- $150k or more80
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Judicial Branch in 2025
- 1Gordon J MacdonaldJudicialft$208,164▲ $2,352 vs 2024
- 2Sherry L BissonCourt Clerk VII$206,414▲ $69,445 vs 2024
- 3Dianne H MartinAdo/Oba General Counsel$205,798▲ $45,100 vs 2024
- 4Patrick E DonovanJudicialft$202,603▲ $2,633 vs 2024
- 5Mark E HowardJudicialft$202,253▲ $2,283 vs 2024
- 6Ellen V ChristoJudicialft$201,903▲ $8,957 vs 2024
- 7Melissa B CountwayJudicialft$201,903▲ $2,851 vs 2024
- 8Anna Barbara MarconiJudicialft$201,903▲ $2,283 vs 2024
- 9Beth H KissingerJudicialft$197,781▲ $6,779 vs 2024
- 10James P BassettJudicialft$193,979▼ $5,991 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a New Hampshire Judicial Branch employee make?
The typical employee was paid $49,950 in 2025: half of the 944 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $33,552 and $73,856.
Why do so many people earn very little?
The list includes everyone who got a paycheck during the year: part-time, seasonal and short-term workers, and people who joined or left partway through. 62 people (6.6%) were paid under $10,000.
Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?
No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (97.2% of all pay), overtime (0.2%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (2.6%).
Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?
From New Hampshire Department of Administrative Services (TransparentNH) (transparentnh.das.nh.gov). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the next update is expected in early 2027.
"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 0 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals