Museum Technicians and Conservators in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,554
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$8,916
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,034
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
$56,470
Kept after tax
$47,554
Worth in national money
$49,034
State rank
11
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Nevada's middle earner gets $56,470, putting the state 11 of 45 — about 9.78% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 277 among 485 occupations Nevada publishes pay for.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $56,470 you keep $47,554, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $49,034 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $59,510, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For museum technicians and conservators, Nevada sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $56,470, ranking 11 of 45 and running about 9.78% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 277 of 485 in Nevada places museum technicians and conservators 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.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for museum technicians and conservators on $56,470 is $47,554. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $49,034 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 $59,510 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Museum Technicians and Conservators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,460 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,860 |
| This salary | $56,470 |
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 | $47,554 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,554 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$98 |
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 | $56,470 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$119 |
| 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 museum technicians and conservators in Nevada earn under $56,470 and half over. The published range runs $36,460 at the tenth percentile to $92,860 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $47,554, from $56,470, 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 277 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $49,034, the adjusted value of that $56,470 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 277 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for museum technicians and conservators in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,460 to $92,860; 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.
- Take-home for Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $47,554 from $56,470. 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 277 of 485 locally.
- This $49,034 adjusted figure, worked from $56,470, 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 277 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 277 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 $59,510 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,460 and the top tenth $92,860 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $49,034.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $47,554 survives, because Nevada levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 $59,510. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,460) and the ninetieth ($92,860) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $49,034 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 $47,554 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.