Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,661
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$8,209
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,052
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
$52,870
Kept after tax
$44,661
Worth in national money
$46,052
State rank
49
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Nevada. The middle earner gets $52,870. That is 49 of 49 states, and about 32.75% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 291 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $52,870 you keep $44,661, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $46,052 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $67,220, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary, Nevada sits in the lower band at $52,870, ranking 49 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 32.75%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary ranks 291 of 485 occupations in Nevada 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 Nevada income tax, retained pay for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary on $52,870 is $44,661. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $46,052 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 $67,220 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,850 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,470 |
| This salary | $52,870 |
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 | $44,661 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,661 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$92 |
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 | $52,870 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$112 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $52,870 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,850 and the ninetieth is $107,470 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $44,661, from $52,870, 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 291 of 485 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,052 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 291.
- The Nevada median of $52,870 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,850 to $107,470. 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 Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,661 from $52,870. 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 291 of 485 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,052, worked from $52,870, 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 291 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $67,220, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $49,850, the highest tenth $107,470, 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. Nevada is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $46,052 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $44,661 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $67,220. 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 ($49,850) and the ninetieth ($107,470) 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 $46,052 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 $44,661 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.