Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,014
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$10,496
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,696
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
$64,510
Kept after tax
$54,014
Worth in national money
$55,696
State rank
28
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 28 of 49 states for this job, with a middle wage of $64,510. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 202 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 $64,510 you keep $54,014 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $55,696 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $67,990, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada ranks 28 of 49 for career/technical education teachers, secondary school at $64,510. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Career/technical education teachers, secondary school ranks 202 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 $54,014 after the full tax stack, from $64,510. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $55,696 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $67,990 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,510 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,410 |
| This salary | $64,510 |
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 | $54,014 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,014 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$112 |
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 | $64,510 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$135 |
| 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 $64,510. The published range is $55,010 up to $83,410, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $54,014, from $64,510, 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 202 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 $55,696 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 202.
- Reported values are medians; for career/technical education teachers, secondary school in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $55,010 to $83,410. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $54,014 from $64,510. 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 202 of 485 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $55,696, worked from $64,510, 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 202 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 $67,990, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $55,010 and the top tenth $83,410, so most people doing this work in Nevada sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $55,696.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $54,014 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. 49 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 $67,990. 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 ($55,010 to $83,410) 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 $55,696 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 $54,014 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.