Home Health and Personal Care Aides in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,234
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$4,436
13.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,144
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
$33,670
Kept after tax
$29,234
Worth in national money
$30,144
State rank
34
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 34 of 51 states for home health and personal care aides, with a middle wage of $33,670. 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, home health and personal care aides ranks 457. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $33,670 you keep $29,234 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $30,144 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $32,480.
- Nevada ranks 34 of 51 for home health and personal care aides at $33,670. 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, home health and personal care aides ranks 457 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.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $29,234 after the full tax stack, from $33,670. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $30,144 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $32,480 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Home Health and Personal Care Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $36,600 |
| This salary | $33,670 |
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 | $29,234 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $29,234 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$60 |
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 | $33,670 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$73 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 home health and personal care aides in Nevada earn under $33,670 and half over. The published range runs $26,400 at the tenth percentile to $36,600 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $29,234 take-home in Nevada comes from $33,670. 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 457 of 485.
- Two cautions on $30,144, the adjusted value of that $33,670 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 457 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for home health and personal care aides in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $26,400 to $36,600; 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.
- Retained pay of $29,234, from $33,670, 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 457 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 51 for it.
- This $30,144 adjusted figure, worked from $33,670, 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 457 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 457 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $32,480, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $26,400 at the bottom tenth to $36,600 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $30,144 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $29,234 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $32,480. 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 ($26,400 to $36,600) 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 $30,144 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 $29,234 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.