Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,936
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$7,054
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,180
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
$46,990
Kept after tax
$39,936
Worth in national money
$41,180
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Nevada pays this job a middle wage of $46,990, ranking 17 of 51 states and sitting about 2.31% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 347 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $46,990 you keep $39,936, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $41,180 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $46,380, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Nevada's median for medical secretaries and administrative assistants is $46,990, about 2.31% above the national figure and 17 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Medical secretaries and administrative assistants ranks 347 of 485 occupations in Nevada by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for medical secretaries and administrative assistants on $46,990 is $39,936. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $41,180 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 $46,380 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,360 |
| This salary | $46,990 |
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 | $39,936 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,936 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$83 |
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 | $46,990 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$100 |
| 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 medical secretaries and administrative assistants in Nevada earn under $46,990 and half over. The published range runs $36,770 at the tenth percentile to $58,360 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,936 take-home in Nevada comes from $46,990. 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 347 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $41,180 uses one figure for the whole of Nevada. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 485 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 347.
- Figures are distribution medians for medical secretaries and administrative assistants in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,770 to $58,360; 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 $39,936, from $46,990, 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 347 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $41,180, worked from $46,990, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Nevada address, on work sitting at 347 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $36,770 at the bottom tenth to $58,360 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 $41,180 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $39,936 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,770 to $58,360) 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 $41,180 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 $39,936 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.