Funeral Attendants in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,946
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$8,034
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,314
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
$51,980
Kept after tax
$43,946
Worth in national money
$45,314
State rank
3
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Nevada pays funeral attendants a middle wage of $51,980, ranking 3 of 48 states and sitting about 45.68% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 485 occupations Nevada reports figures for, this is number 294.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $51,980 you keep $43,946, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $45,314 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $46,580, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Nevada's median for funeral attendants is $51,980, about 45.68% above the national figure and 3 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In Nevada's occupational distribution, funeral attendants sits at 294 of 485 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for funeral attendants on $51,980 is $43,946. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $45,314 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 $46,580 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Funeral Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,850 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,170 |
| This salary | $51,980 |
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 | $43,946 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,946 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$91 |
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 | $51,980 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$110 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,980 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,850 and the ninetieth is $54,170 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $43,946 take-home in Nevada comes from $51,980. 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 294 of 485.
- Two cautions on $45,314, the adjusted value of that $51,980 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 294 of 485 locally.
- The Nevada median of $51,980 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,850 to $54,170. 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 $43,946, from $51,980, 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 294 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 48 for it.
- This $45,314 adjusted figure, worked from $51,980, 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 294 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 294 of 485 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 $46,580 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $34,850 at the bottom tenth to $54,170 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $45,314.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $43,946 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?
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 Nevada is $46,580. 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 ($34,850 to $54,170) 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 $45,314 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 $43,946 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.