Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$24,223
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$3,237
11.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$24,978
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
$27,460
Kept after tax
$24,223
Worth in national money
$24,978
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nevada pays this job a middle wage of $27,460, 37 of 51 states and about 19.19% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Nevada this is lower-paid work. Of 485 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 480. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $27,460 the take-home is $24,223; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $24,978 would nationally. The average comes to $32,640, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Nevada's $27,460 median for dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers places it 37 of 51 states, about 19.19% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Nevada reports, dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers ranks 480 of 485, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Post-tax income for dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers in Nevada, on $27,460, is $24,223 — equivalent to $24,978 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 $32,640 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $24,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $27,460 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,320 |
| This salary | $27,460 |
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 | $24,223 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $24,223 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$50 |
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 | $27,460 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$59 |
| 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 $27,460. The published range is $24,960 up to $47,320, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $24,223 take-home in Nevada comes from $27,460. 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 480 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $24,978 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 480.
- Reported values are medians; for dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $24,960 to $47,320. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $24,223, from $27,460, 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 480 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $24,978, worked from $27,460, 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 480 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 $32,640, 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 $24,960 and the top tenth $47,320 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $24,978.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $24,223 survives, because Nevada levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 $32,640. 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 ($24,960) and the ninetieth ($47,320) 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 $24,978 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 $24,223 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.