Art Directors in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$77,822
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$20,248
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,246
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
$98,070
Kept after tax
$77,822
Worth in national money
$80,246
State rank
20
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 20 of 46 states for art directors, with a middle wage of $98,070. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 485 occupations Nevada reports, art directors comes in at 79 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $98,070 the take-home is $77,822; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $80,246 would nationally. The average comes to $111,350, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Nevada ranks 20 of 46 for art directors at $98,070. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Art directors ranks 79 of 485 occupations by median in Nevada, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for art directors in Nevada, on $98,070, is $77,822 — equivalent to $80,246 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $111,350 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Art Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $98,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $185,100 |
| This salary | $98,070 |
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 | $77,822 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,822 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$161 |
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 | $98,070 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$222 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of art directors in Nevada earn under $98,070 and half over. The published range runs $60,000 at the tenth percentile to $185,100 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $77,822 take-home in Nevada comes from $98,070. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 79 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Nevada, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $80,246, the adjusted value of that $98,070 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 79 of 485 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for art directors in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $60,000 to $185,100; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $77,822, from $98,070, assumes a single Nevada filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 79 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 46 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Nevada, so $80,246 — the adjusted value of that $98,070 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 79 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 $111,350 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $60,000 at the bottom tenth to $185,100 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $80,246.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $77,822 of this wage reaches your account, because Nevada takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 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 $111,350. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($60,000) and the ninetieth ($185,100) 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?
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 $80,246 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 $77,822 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.