Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,535
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$9,645
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,108
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
$60,180
Kept after tax
$50,535
Worth in national money
$52,108
State rank
4
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Nevada pays this job a middle wage of $60,180, ranking 4 of 47 states and sitting about 23.98% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 255 among 485 occupations Nevada publishes pay for.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $60,180 you keep $50,535, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $52,108 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $61,990, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nevada's median for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders is $60,180, about 23.98% above the national figure and 4 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 255 of 485 in Nevada places crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders 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.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders on $60,180 is $50,535. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $52,108 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $61,990 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,180 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,390 |
| This salary | $60,180 |
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 | $50,535 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,535 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$105 |
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 | $60,180 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$126 |
| 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 crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Nevada earn under $60,180 and half over. The published range runs $38,040 at the tenth percentile to $83,390 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 $50,535, worked from $60,180. 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 255 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $52,108 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 255.
- Figures are distribution medians for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,040 to $83,390; 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 $50,535, on $60,180 for work ranking 255 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 255 of 485 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $52,108, worked from $60,180, 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 255 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $61,990, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,040 and the top tenth $83,390 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $52,108 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $50,535 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $61,990. 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 ($38,040) and the ninetieth ($83,390) 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 $52,108 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 $50,535 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.