Commercial Pilots in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$82,937
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$22,403
21.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$85,519
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
$105,340
Kept after tax
$82,937
Worth in national money
$85,519
State rank
30
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nevada pays commercial pilots around $105,340 at the midpoint, 30 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Nevada. It ranks 51 out of 485 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $105,340 the take-home is $82,937; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $85,519 would nationally. The average comes to $125,470, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For commercial pilots the Nevada median is $105,340, ranking 30 of 48 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Nevada, commercial pilots ranks 51 of 485 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Post-tax income for commercial pilots in Nevada, on $105,340, is $82,937 — equivalent to $85,519 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 $125,470 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Commercial Pilots
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $105,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $211,260 |
| This salary | $105,340 |
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 | $82,937 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $82,937 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$172 |
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 | $105,340 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$237 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $105,340 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $51,350 and the ninetieth is $211,260 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $82,937 take-home in Nevada comes from $105,340. 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 51 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $85,519 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 51.
- The Nevada median of $105,340 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $51,350 to $211,260. 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 $82,937, from $105,340, 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 51 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $85,519, worked from $105,340, 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 51 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 $125,470 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $51,350, the highest tenth $211,260, 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 $85,519 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $82,937 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. 48 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 $125,470. 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 ($51,350) and the ninetieth ($211,260) 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 $85,519 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 $82,937 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.