Clergy in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,826
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$13,084
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,720
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
$73,910
Kept after tax
$60,826
Worth in national money
$62,720
State rank
3
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for clergy is strong here. Nevada's middle earner gets $73,910, putting the state 3 of 50 — about 21.54% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 485 occupations Nevada reports figures for, this is number 161.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $73,910 you keep $60,826 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $62,720 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $71,420.
- For clergy, Nevada sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $73,910, ranking 3 of 50 and running about 21.54% 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.
- In Nevada's occupational distribution, clergy sits at 161 of 485 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $60,826 after the full tax stack, from $73,910. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $62,720 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $71,420 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Clergy
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,810 |
| This salary | $73,910 |
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 | $60,826 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,826 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$126 |
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 | $73,910 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$174 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $73,910 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $51,070 and the ninetieth is $82,810 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $60,826 take-home in Nevada comes from $73,910. 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 161 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Nevada, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $62,720, the adjusted value of that $73,910 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 161 of 485 in the state.
- The Nevada median of $73,910 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $51,070 to $82,810. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $60,826, from $73,910, 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 161 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Nevada, so $62,720 — the adjusted value of that $73,910 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 161 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 $71,420 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 $51,070 and the top tenth $82,810, so most people doing this work in Nevada sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nevada sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $62,720 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $60,826 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $71,420. 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 ($51,070 to $82,810) 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 $62,720 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 $60,826 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.