Order Clerks in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,770
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$5,790
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,853
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
$40,560
Kept after tax
$34,770
Worth in national money
$35,853
State rank
43
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nevada pays order clerks a middle wage of $40,560, 43 of 48 states and about 12.15% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Nevada this is lower-paid work. Of 485 occupations the state publishes figures for, order clerks ranks 393. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $40,560 you keep $34,770 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $35,853 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $42,920, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada's $40,560 median for order clerks places it 43 of 48 states, about 12.15% 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.
- Against every occupation Nevada reports, order clerks ranks 393 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.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $34,770 after the full tax stack, from $40,560. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $35,853 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $42,920 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Order Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,860 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,730 |
| This salary | $40,560 |
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 | $34,770 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,770 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$72 |
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 | $40,560 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$87 |
| 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 order clerks in Nevada earn under $40,560 and half over. The published range runs $33,860 at the tenth percentile to $54,730 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $34,770, worked from $40,560. 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 393 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Nevada, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $35,853, the adjusted value of that $40,560 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 393 of 485 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for order clerks in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,860 to $54,730; 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.
- The Nevada take-home of $34,770, on $40,560 for work ranking 393 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 393 of 485 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Nevada, so $35,853 — the adjusted value of that $40,560 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 393 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $42,920, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $33,860 at the bottom tenth to $54,730 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Nevada is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $35,853 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $34,770 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 $42,920. 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 ($33,860 to $54,730) 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 $35,853 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 $34,770 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.