Engineers, All Other in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,760
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$20,730
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$74,976
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$88,490
Kept after tax
$67,760
Worth in national money
$74,976
State rank
49
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nebraska pays engineers, all other a middle wage of $88,490, 49 of 51 states and about 28.02% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Nebraska. It ranks 77 out of 488 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $88,490 you keep $67,760 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $74,976 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $90,860, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nebraska's $88,490 median for engineers, all other places it 49 of 51 states, about 28.02% 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.
- Within Nebraska, engineers, all other ranks 77 of 488 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in Nebraska is $67,760 after the full tax stack, from $88,490. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $74,976 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $90,860 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Engineers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $88,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $136,260 |
| This salary | $88,490 |
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 Nebraska | $67,760 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $71,083 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,826 |
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 | $83,767 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,523 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $88,490 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,630 and the ninetieth is $136,260 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $67,760 take-home in Nebraska comes from $88,490. 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 77 of 488.
- Two cautions on $74,976, the adjusted value of that $88,490 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. 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 77 of 488 locally.
- The Nebraska median of $88,490 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,630 to $136,260. 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 $67,760, from $88,490, assumes a single Nebraska 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 77 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 49 of 51 for it.
- This $74,976 adjusted figure, worked from $88,490, 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 77 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 77 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $40,630, the highest tenth $136,260, 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 $74,976.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $67,760 of this wage survives to your account.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($40,630) and the ninetieth ($136,260) 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?
Nebraska'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 $74,976 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $67,760 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.