Occupational Therapy Assistants in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,774
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$12,406
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,181
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$63,180
Kept after tax
$50,774
Worth in national money
$56,181
State rank
40
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nebraska pays this job a middle wage of $63,180, 40 of 50 states and about 12.61% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 182 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Nebraska is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $63,180 the take-home is $50,774; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $56,181 would nationally. The average lands at $62,520, below the middle of the range.
- Nebraska's $63,180 median for occupational therapy assistants places it 40 of 50 states, about 12.61% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Occupational therapy assistants ranks 182 of 488 occupations in Nebraska 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.
- Post-tax income for occupational therapy assistants in Nebraska, on $63,180, is $50,774 — equivalent to $56,181 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 $62,520 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Occupational Therapy Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,180 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,840 |
| This salary | $63,180 |
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 Nebraska | $50,774 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,945 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,697 |
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 | $60,478 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,052 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,180 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,490 and the ninetieth is $77,840 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nebraska's $50,774, worked from $63,180. 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 182 of 488.
- Two cautions on $56,181, the adjusted value of that $63,180 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. 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 182 of 488 locally.
- The Nebraska median of $63,180 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,490 to $77,840. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Nebraska take-home of $50,774, on $63,180 for work ranking 182 of 488 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 182 of 488 in the state.
- This $56,181 adjusted figure, worked from $63,180, 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 182 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 182 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $47,490 at the tenth percentile, $77,840 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nebraska sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $56,181 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $50,774 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,490 to $77,840) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Nebraska rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nebraska'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 $56,181 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $50,774 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.