Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,989
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$7,311
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,265
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
$48,300
Kept after tax
$40,989
Worth in national money
$42,265
State rank
27
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nevada pays this job around $48,300 at the midpoint, 27 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 485 occupations Nevada reports figures for, this is number 327.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $48,300 you keep $40,989 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $42,265 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $50,910, since top earners drag the number up.
- For insurance claims and policy processing clerks the Nevada median is $48,300, ranking 27 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- In Nevada's occupational distribution, insurance claims and policy processing clerks sits at 327 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.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $40,989 after the full tax stack, from $48,300. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $42,265 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $50,910 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,390 |
| This salary | $48,300 |
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 | $40,989 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,989 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$85 |
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 | $48,300 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$103 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Nevada earn less than $48,300. The published range is $40,420 up to $62,390, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $40,989, worked from $48,300. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 327 of 485.
- Two cautions on $42,265, the adjusted value of that $48,300 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 327 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for insurance claims and policy processing clerks in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $40,420 to $62,390. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Nevada take-home of $40,989, on $48,300 for work ranking 327 of 485 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 327 of 485 in the state.
- This $42,265 adjusted figure, worked from $48,300, 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 327 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 327 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 $50,910, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $40,420 and the top tenth $62,390, so most people doing this work in Nevada sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $42,265 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $40,989 of this wage reaches your account, because Nevada takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 49 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 $50,910. 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 ($40,420 to $62,390) 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 $42,265 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 $40,989 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.