Dental Laboratory Technicians in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,901
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$7,289
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,174
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
$48,190
Kept after tax
$40,901
Worth in national money
$42,174
State rank
25
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 25 of 46 states for this job, with a middle wage of $48,190. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 329 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $48,190 you keep $40,901, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $42,174 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $54,190, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nevada ranks 25 of 46 for dental laboratory technicians at $48,190. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Dental laboratory technicians ranks 329 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.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for dental laboratory technicians on $48,190 is $40,901. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $42,174 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 $54,190 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Dental Laboratory Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,190 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,240 |
| This salary | $48,190 |
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 | $40,901 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,901 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$85 |
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 | $48,190 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$102 |
| 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 dental laboratory technicians in Nevada earn under $48,190 and half over. The published range runs $35,310 at the tenth percentile to $82,240 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $40,901 take-home in Nevada comes from $48,190. 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 329 of 485.
- Two cautions on $42,174, the adjusted value of that $48,190 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 329 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for dental laboratory technicians in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,310 to $82,240; 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.
- Retained pay of $40,901, from $48,190, assumes a single Nevada 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 329 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 46 for it.
- This $42,174 adjusted figure, worked from $48,190, 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 329 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 329 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 $54,190, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $35,310, the highest tenth $82,240, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $42,174.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $40,901 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 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 $54,190. 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 ($35,310) and the ninetieth ($82,240) 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 $42,174 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 $40,901 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.