Financial Examiners in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,528
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$15,932
21.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,761
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
$74,460
Kept after tax
$58,528
Worth in national money
$64,761
State rank
43
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Nebraska is among the lower-paying states for financial examiners. The middle earner takes $74,460, ranking 43 of 49 states — about 20.92% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 130 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Nebraska does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $74,460 you keep $58,528, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $64,761 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $82,700, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nebraska ranks 43 of 49 for financial examiners, with a median of $74,460 — about 20.92% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Financial examiners ranks 130 of 488 occupations in Nebraska by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and Nebraska income tax, retained pay for financial examiners on $74,460 is $58,528. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $64,761 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 $82,700 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Financial Examiners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,460 |
| Top tenth earn over | $127,000 |
| This salary | $74,460 |
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 | $58,528 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,213 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,769 |
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 | $70,644 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,443 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of financial examiners in Nebraska earn under $74,460 and half over. The published range runs $49,490 at the tenth percentile to $127,000 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Nebraska the take-home figure of $58,528, from $74,460, 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 130 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $64,761, the adjusted value of that $74,460 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 130 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for financial examiners in Nebraska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $49,490 to $127,000; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Nebraska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $58,528 from $74,460. 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 130 of 488 locally.
- This $64,761 adjusted figure, worked from $74,460, 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 130 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 130 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $82,700 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $49,490, the highest tenth $127,000, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Nebraska is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $64,761 in national terms.
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 $58,528 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Nebraska is $82,700. 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 ($49,490) and the ninetieth ($127,000) 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 $64,761 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 $58,528 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.
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.