Legal Support Workers, All Other in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,049
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$9,771
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,639
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
$60,820
Kept after tax
$51,049
Worth in national money
$52,639
State rank
32
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for legal support workers, all other is on the low side in Nevada. The middle earner gets $60,820. That is 32 of 45 states, and about 15.66% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Legal support workers, all other ranks 245 among 485 occupations Nevada publishes pay for.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $60,820 the take-home is $51,049; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $52,639 would nationally. The average comes to $64,100, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For legal support workers, all other, Nevada sits in the lower band at $60,820, ranking 32 of 45 and trailing the national median by about 15.66%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 245 of 485 in Nevada places legal support workers, all other in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Post-tax income for legal support workers, all other in Nevada, on $60,820, is $51,049 — equivalent to $52,639 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 $64,100 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Legal Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,850 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,820 |
| Top tenth earn over | $84,070 |
| This salary | $60,820 |
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 | $51,049 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,049 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$106 |
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 | $60,820 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$128 |
| 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 legal support workers, all other in Nevada earn under $60,820 and half over. The published range runs $43,850 at the tenth percentile to $84,070 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $51,049, worked from $60,820. 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 245 of 485.
- Two cautions on $52,639, the adjusted value of that $60,820 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 245 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for legal support workers, all other in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $43,850 to $84,070; 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.
- The Nevada take-home of $51,049, on $60,820 for work ranking 245 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 245 of 485 in the state.
- This $52,639 adjusted figure, worked from $60,820, 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 245 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 245 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 $64,100 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $43,850 and the top tenth $84,070, 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 $52,639 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $51,049 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $64,100. 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 ($43,850 to $84,070) 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 $52,639 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 $51,049 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.