Medical Transcriptionists in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,798
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$5,552
14.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,850
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
$39,350
Kept after tax
$33,798
Worth in national money
$34,850
State rank
26
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 26 of 50 states for medical transcriptionists, with a middle wage of $39,350. 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, medical transcriptionists ranks 407. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $39,350 you keep $33,798, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $34,850 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $45,080, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nevada ranks 26 of 50 for medical transcriptionists at $39,350. 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, medical transcriptionists ranks 407 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.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for medical transcriptionists on $39,350 is $33,798. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $34,850 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 $45,080 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Medical Transcriptionists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $51,730 |
| This salary | $39,350 |
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 | $33,798 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,798 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$70 |
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 | $39,350 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$85 |
| 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 $39,350. The published range is $36,400 up to $51,730, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $33,798, from $39,350, 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 407 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $34,850, the adjusted value of that $39,350 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 407 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for medical transcriptionists in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,400 to $51,730. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $33,798 from $39,350. 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 407 of 485 locally.
- This $34,850 adjusted figure, worked from $39,350, 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 407 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 407 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 $45,080 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $36,400 at the bottom tenth to $51,730 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $34,850.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $33,798 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $45,080. 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 ($36,400 to $51,730) 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 $34,850 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 $33,798 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.