File Clerks in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,655
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$6,495
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,827
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
$44,150
Kept after tax
$37,655
Worth in national money
$38,827
State rank
19
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 19 of 49 states for file clerks, with a middle wage of $44,150. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Nevada this is lower-paid work. Of 485 occupations the state publishes figures for, file clerks ranks 376. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $44,150 you keep $37,655, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $38,827 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $46,140, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nevada ranks 19 of 49 for file clerks at $44,150. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Nevada reports, file clerks ranks 376 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.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for file clerks on $44,150 is $37,655. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $38,827 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $46,140 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: File Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,160 |
| This salary | $44,150 |
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 | $37,655 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,655 |
| 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 | $44,150 |
|---|---|
| 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
- Treat $44,150 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,280 and the ninetieth is $61,160 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $37,655 take-home in Nevada comes from $44,150. 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 376 of 485.
- Two cautions on $38,827, the adjusted value of that $44,150 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 376 of 485 locally.
- The Nevada median of $44,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,280 to $61,160. 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 $37,655, from $44,150, 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 376 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 49 for it.
- This $38,827 adjusted figure, worked from $44,150, 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 376 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 376 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 $46,140, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,280 at the tenth percentile, $61,160 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,827 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $37,655 of this wage reaches your account, because Nevada takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 $46,140. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,280 to $61,160) 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 $38,827 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 $37,655 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.