Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,522
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$6,708
14.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,722
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
$45,230
Kept after tax
$38,522
Worth in national money
$39,722
State rank
39
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Nevada. The middle earner gets $45,230. That is 39 of 51 states, and about 2.56% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 485 occupations Nevada publishes, this job lands at 369. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $45,230 the take-home is $38,522; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $39,722 would nationally. The average comes to $49,070, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For industrial truck and tractor operators, Nevada sits in the lower band at $45,230, ranking 39 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 2.56%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Nevada, this work ranks 369 of 485 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for industrial truck and tractor operators in Nevada, on $45,230, is $38,522 — equivalent to $39,722 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $49,070 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,950 |
| This salary | $45,230 |
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 Nevada | $38,522 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,522 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$80 |
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 | $45,230 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$96 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,230 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,560 and the ninetieth is $66,950 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $38,522, from $45,230, 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 369 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $39,722, the adjusted value of that $45,230 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 369 of 485 locally.
- The Nevada median of $45,230 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,560 to $66,950. 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 Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $38,522 from $45,230. 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 369 of 485 locally.
- This $39,722 adjusted figure, worked from $45,230, 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 369 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 369 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 $49,070, 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 — $37,560 at the tenth percentile, $66,950 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 $39,722 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $38,522 survives, because Nevada levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $49,070. 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 ($37,560 to $66,950) 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 $39,722 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 $38,522 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.