Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,700
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$12,610
17.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,559
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
$72,310
Kept after tax
$59,700
Worth in national money
$61,559
State rank
29
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Nevada sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $72,310, ranking 29 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 169 among 485 occupations Nevada publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $72,310 you keep $59,700 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $61,559 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $85,990, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada occupies the middle band for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door: a median of $72,310, ranking 29 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 169 of 485 in Nevada places control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $59,700 after the full tax stack, from $72,310. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $61,559 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $85,990 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,650 |
| This salary | $72,310 |
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 | $59,700 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,700 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$124 |
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 | $72,310 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$171 |
| 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 $72,310. The published range is $62,310 up to $115,650, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $59,700, from $72,310, 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 169 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $61,559, the adjusted value of that $72,310 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 169 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $62,310 to $115,650. 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 $59,700 from $72,310. 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 169 of 485 locally.
- This $61,559 adjusted figure, worked from $72,310, 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 169 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 169 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 $85,990, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $62,310 and the top tenth $115,650 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $61,559 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $59,700 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $85,990. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($62,310) and the ninetieth ($115,650) 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 $61,559 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 $59,700 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.