Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,012
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$14,848
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,036
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
$79,860
Kept after tax
$65,012
Worth in national money
$67,036
State rank
2
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 $79,860, ranking 2 of 51 states and sitting about 21.91% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 129 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 $79,860 you keep $65,012, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $67,036 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $80,220, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nevada's median for mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines is $79,860, about 21.91% above the national figure and 2 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.
- Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines ranks 129 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 mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines on $79,860 is $65,012. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $67,036 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 $80,220 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,970 |
| This salary | $79,860 |
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 | $65,012 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,012 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$135 |
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 | $79,860 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$186 |
| 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 $79,860. The published range is $59,560 up to $97,970, 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 $65,012, worked from $79,860. 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 129 of 485.
- Two cautions on $67,036, the adjusted value of that $79,860 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 129 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $59,560 to $97,970. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Nevada take-home of $65,012, on $79,860 for work ranking 129 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 129 of 485 in the state.
- This $67,036 adjusted figure, worked from $79,860, 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 129 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 129 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $59,560 at the tenth percentile, $97,970 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 $67,036 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $65,012 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($59,560 to $97,970) 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 $67,036 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 $65,012 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.