Construction and Building Inspectors in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,797
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$13,493
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,721
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
$75,290
Kept after tax
$61,797
Worth in national money
$63,721
State rank
20
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nevada pays construction and building inspectors around $75,290 at the midpoint, 20 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 154 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 $75,290 you keep $61,797 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $63,721 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $78,320, since top earners drag the number up.
- For construction and building inspectors the Nevada median is $75,290, ranking 20 of 51 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.
- Construction and building inspectors ranks 154 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 $61,797 after the full tax stack, from $75,290. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $63,721 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $78,320 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Construction and Building Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,490 |
| This salary | $75,290 |
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 | $61,797 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,797 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$128 |
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 | $75,290 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$177 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of construction and building inspectors in Nevada earn under $75,290 and half over. The published range runs $55,510 at the tenth percentile to $105,490 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $61,797, worked from $75,290. 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 154 of 485.
- Two cautions on $63,721, the adjusted value of that $75,290 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 154 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for construction and building inspectors in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $55,510 to $105,490; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Nevada take-home of $61,797, on $75,290 for work ranking 154 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 154 of 485 in the state.
- This $63,721 adjusted figure, worked from $75,290, 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 154 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 154 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $78,320, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $55,510 at the tenth percentile, $105,490 at the ninetieth.
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 $63,721 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $61,797 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 $78,320. 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 ($55,510 to $105,490) 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 $63,721 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 $61,797 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.