Crossing Guards and Flaggers in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,680
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$6,310
16.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,054
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$37,990
Kept after tax
$31,680
Worth in national money
$35,054
State rank
20
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nebraska pays crossing guards and flaggers around $37,990 at the midpoint, 20 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 488 occupations Nebraska publishes, crossing guards and flaggers lands at 422. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $37,990 you keep $31,680 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $35,054 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $36,930.
- For crossing guards and flaggers the Nebraska median is $37,990, ranking 20 of 49 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 Nebraska, this work ranks 422 of 488 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Nebraska is $31,680 after the full tax stack, from $37,990. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $35,054 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $36,930 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Crossing Guards and Flaggers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,570 |
| This salary | $37,990 |
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 Nebraska | $31,680 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,705 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,398 |
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 | $36,714 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,690 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Nebraska earn less than $37,990. The published range is $28,080 up to $45,570, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $31,680 take-home in Nebraska comes from $37,990. 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 422 of 488.
- Two cautions on $35,054, the adjusted value of that $37,990 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. 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 422 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for crossing guards and flaggers in Nebraska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $28,080 to $45,570. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $31,680, from $37,990, assumes a single Nebraska 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 422 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 49 for it.
- This $35,054 adjusted figure, worked from $37,990, 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 422 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 422 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $28,080 and the top tenth $45,570, so most people doing this work in Nebraska sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nebraska sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $35,054 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Nebraska's own levy, $31,680 remains.
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 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($28,080 to $45,570) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Nebraska rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nebraska'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 $35,054 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $31,680 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.