Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,056
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$8,984
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,321
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$49,040
Kept after tax
$40,056
Worth in national money
$44,321
State rank
41
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Nebraska. The middle earner gets $49,040. That is 41 of 50 states, and about 20.31% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 304 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Nebraska does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $49,040 you keep $40,056, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $44,321 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $50,220, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors, Nebraska sits in the lower band at $49,040, ranking 41 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 20.31%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors ranks 304 of 488 occupations in Nebraska by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and Nebraska income tax, retained pay for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors on $49,040 is $40,056. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $44,321 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $50,220 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $85,680 |
| This salary | $49,040 |
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 Nebraska | $40,056 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,584 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,529 |
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 | $47,139 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,849 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,040 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,080 and the ninetieth is $85,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Nebraska the take-home figure of $40,056, from $49,040, 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 304 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $44,321, the adjusted value of that $49,040 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 304 of 488 locally.
- The Nebraska median of $49,040 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,080 to $85,680. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Nebraska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $40,056 from $49,040. 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 304 of 488 locally.
- This $44,321 adjusted figure, worked from $49,040, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 304 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 304 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $28,080, the highest tenth $85,680, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Nebraska is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $44,321 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $40,056 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($28,080) and the ninetieth ($85,680) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nebraska's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $44,321 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $40,056 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.