Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,495
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$7,435
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,787
Nevada costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nevada — 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
$48,930
Kept after tax
$41,495
Worth in national money
$42,787
State rank
42
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nevada pays this job a middle wage of $48,930, 42 of 50 states and about 20.49% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 323 among 485 occupations Nevada publishes pay for.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $48,930 you keep $41,495, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $42,787 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $52,670, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nevada's $48,930 median for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors places it 42 of 50 states, about 20.49% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 323 of 485 in Nevada places adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors on $48,930 is $41,495. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $42,787 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 $52,670 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 | $45,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,930 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,750 |
| This salary | $48,930 |
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 Nevada | $41,495 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,495 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$86 |
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 | $48,930 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$104 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Nevada earn less than $48,930. The published range is $45,300 up to $69,750, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $41,495, worked from $48,930. 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 323 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $42,787 uses one figure for the whole of Nevada. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 485 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 323.
- Reported values are medians; for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,300 to $69,750. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Nevada take-home of $41,495, on $48,930 for work ranking 323 of 485 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 323 of 485 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $42,787, worked from $48,930, 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 Nevada address, on work sitting at 323 of 485 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 $52,670 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $45,300 and the top tenth $69,750, so most people doing this work in Nevada sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Nevada is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $42,787 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,495 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. 50 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 Nevada is $52,670. 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 ($45,300 to $69,750) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Nevada rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nevada'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 $42,787 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Nevada levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $41,495 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.