Driver/Sales Workers in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$27,699
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$4,061
12.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,562
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
$31,760
Kept after tax
$27,699
Worth in national money
$28,562
State rank
41
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nevada pays driver/sales workers a middle wage of $31,760, 41 of 51 states and about 18.08% 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, driver/sales workers ranks 463. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $31,760 you keep $27,699 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $28,562 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $35,830, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada's $31,760 median for driver/sales workers places it 41 of 51 states, about 18.08% 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, driver/sales workers ranks 463 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.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $27,699 after the full tax stack, from $31,760. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $28,562 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $35,830 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Driver/Sales Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $24,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $31,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $51,550 |
| This salary | $31,760 |
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 | $27,699 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $27,699 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$57 |
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 | $31,760 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$69 |
| 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 $31,760. The published range is $24,960 up to $51,550, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $27,699, worked from $31,760. 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 463 of 485.
- Two cautions on $28,562, the adjusted value of that $31,760 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 463 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for driver/sales workers in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $24,960 to $51,550. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Nevada take-home of $27,699, on $31,760 for work ranking 463 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 463 of 485 in the state.
- This $28,562 adjusted figure, worked from $31,760, 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 463 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 463 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 $35,830, 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 $24,960, the highest tenth $51,550, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $28,562 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $27,699 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $35,830. 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 ($51,550) 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 $28,562 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 $27,699 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.