Electrical Engineers in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$84,386
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$23,014
21.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,014
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
$107,400
Kept after tax
$84,386
Worth in national money
$87,014
State rank
30
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 30 of 49 states for electrical engineers, with a middle wage of $107,400. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Nevada this is well-paid work. Of 485 occupations with published figures in the state, electrical engineers ranks 45 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $107,400 you keep $84,386 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $87,014 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $115,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada ranks 30 of 49 for electrical engineers at $107,400. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Ranked against every occupation Nevada publishes a median for, electrical engineers sits 45 of 485 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $84,386 after the full tax stack, from $107,400. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $87,014 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $115,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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: Electrical Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $77,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $107,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $167,330 |
| This salary | $107,400 |
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 | $84,386 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $84,386 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$175 |
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 | $107,400 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$241 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $107,400 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $77,000 and the ninetieth is $167,330 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $84,386 take-home in Nevada comes from $107,400. 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 45 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $87,014 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 45.
- The Nevada median of $107,400 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $77,000 to $167,330. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $84,386, from $107,400, 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 45 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $87,014, worked from $107,400, 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 45 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 $115,770, 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 $77,000 and the top tenth $167,330 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $87,014 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $84,386 survives, because Nevada levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $115,770. 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 ($77,000) and the ninetieth ($167,330) 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 $87,014 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 $84,386 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.