Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,499
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$7,191
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,760
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
$47,690
Kept after tax
$40,499
Worth in national money
$41,760
State rank
18
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nevada pays this job around $47,690 at the midpoint, 18 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 338 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $47,690 the take-home is $40,499; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $41,760 would nationally. The average lands at $46,710, below the middle of the range.
- For cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic the Nevada median is $47,690, ranking 18 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.
- Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ranks 338 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.
- Post-tax income for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Nevada, on $47,690, is $40,499 — equivalent to $41,760 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 $46,710 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
Compare this career across states
Choose your filing status and local taxes, compare pay, and keep a shortlist.Compare wage and personal-pay outcomes by state, with selected resident local taxes and saved career choices.
Pay band: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $55,430 |
| This salary | $47,690 |
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 | $40,499 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,499 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$84 |
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 | $47,690 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$101 |
| 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 cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Nevada earn under $47,690 and half over. The published range runs $33,790 at the tenth percentile to $55,430 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 $40,499, worked from $47,690. 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 338 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Nevada, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $41,760, the adjusted value of that $47,690 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 338 of 485 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,790 to $55,430; 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 $40,499, on $47,690 for work ranking 338 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 338 of 485 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Nevada, so $41,760 — the adjusted value of that $47,690 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 338 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $33,790 at the bottom tenth to $55,430 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $41,760 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $40,499 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?
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 ($33,790 to $55,430) 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 $41,760 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 $40,499 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.