Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,703
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$6,507
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,877
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
$44,210
Kept after tax
$37,703
Worth in national money
$38,877
State rank
43
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Nevada. The middle earner gets $44,210. That is 43 of 46 states, and about 7.36% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 485 occupations Nevada publishes, this job lands at 375. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $44,210 you keep $37,703 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,877 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $45,050, since top earners drag the number up.
- For extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, Nevada sits in the lower band at $44,210, ranking 43 of 46 and trailing the national median by about 7.36%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Nevada, this work ranks 375 of 485 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $37,703 after the full tax stack, from $44,210. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,877 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $45,050 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,190 |
| This salary | $44,210 |
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 | $37,703 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,703 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$78 |
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 | $44,210 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$94 |
| 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 $44,210. The published range is $36,300 up to $57,190, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $37,703, from $44,210, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 375 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $38,877, the adjusted value of that $44,210 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 375 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,300 to $57,190. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $37,703 from $44,210. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 375 of 485 locally.
- This $38,877 adjusted figure, worked from $44,210, 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 375 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 375 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $36,300 and the top tenth $57,190, so most people doing this work in Nevada sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $38,877 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $37,703 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,300 to $57,190) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Nevada rather than a national figure.
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 $38,877 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 $37,703 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.