Fundraising Managers in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,511
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$23,719
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$81,339
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
$97,230
Kept after tax
$73,511
Worth in national money
$81,339
State rank
40
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nebraska pays fundraising managers a middle wage of $97,230, 40 of 48 states and about 22.51% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Nebraska. It ranks 55 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 $97,230 you keep $73,511 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $81,339 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $109,690, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nebraska's $97,230 median for fundraising managers places it 40 of 48 states, about 22.51% 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, fundraising managers ranks 55 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 $73,511 after the full tax stack, from $97,230. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $81,339 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $109,690 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Fundraising Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $179,670 |
| This salary | $97,230 |
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 | $73,511 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,231 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,862 |
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 | $91,942 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,573 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $97,230 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $63,270 and the ninetieth is $179,670 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Nebraska the take-home figure of $73,511, from $97,230, 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 55 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $81,339, the adjusted value of that $97,230 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 55 of 488 locally.
- The Nebraska median of $97,230 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $63,270 to $179,670. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Nebraska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $73,511 from $97,230. 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 55 of 488 locally.
- This $81,339 adjusted figure, worked from $97,230, 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 55 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 55 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 $109,690 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 $63,270, the highest tenth $179,670, 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 $81,339.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Nebraska then takes its own share, leaving $73,511.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $109,690. 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 ($63,270) and the ninetieth ($179,670) 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 $81,339 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 $73,511 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.