Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,956
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$11,454
16.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,730
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
$68,410
Kept after tax
$56,956
Worth in national money
$58,730
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Nevada's middle earner gets $68,410, putting the state 11 of 51 — about 10.75% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 181 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $68,410 you keep $56,956 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $58,730 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $71,370, since top earners drag the number up.
- For bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists, Nevada sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $68,410, ranking 11 of 51 and running about 10.75% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists ranks 181 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.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $56,956 after the full tax stack, from $68,410. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $58,730 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $71,370 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $68,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,720 |
| This salary | $68,410 |
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 | $56,956 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $56,956 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$118 |
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 | $68,410 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$163 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $68,410 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $48,770 and the ninetieth is $97,720 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $56,956, worked from $68,410. 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 181 of 485.
- Two cautions on $58,730, the adjusted value of that $68,410 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nevada. 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 181 of 485 locally.
- The Nevada median of $68,410 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $48,770 to $97,720. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Nevada take-home of $56,956, on $68,410 for work ranking 181 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 181 of 485 in the state.
- This $58,730 adjusted figure, worked from $68,410, 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 181 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 181 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 $71,370, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $48,770 at the tenth percentile, $97,720 at the ninetieth.
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 $58,730 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $56,956 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $71,370. 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 ($48,770 to $97,720) 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 $58,730 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 $56,956 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.