Orderlies in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,985
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$4,865
13.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,950
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
$35,850
Kept after tax
$30,985
Worth in national money
$31,950
State rank
37
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for orderlies is on the low side in Nevada. The middle earner gets $35,850. That is 37 of 47 states, and about 6.37% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 485 occupations Nevada publishes, orderlies lands at 450. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $35,850 you keep $30,985 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $31,950 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $37,710, since top earners drag the number up.
- For orderlies, Nevada sits in the lower band at $35,850, ranking 37 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 6.37%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Nevada, this work ranks 450 of 485 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $30,985 after the full tax stack, from $35,850. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $31,950 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $37,710 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Orderlies
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,550 |
| This salary | $35,850 |
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 | $30,985 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,985 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$64 |
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 | $35,850 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$78 |
| 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 orderlies in Nevada earn under $35,850 and half over. The published range runs $31,270 at the tenth percentile to $47,550 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $30,985 take-home in Nevada comes from $35,850. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 450 of 485.
- Two cautions on $31,950, the adjusted value of that $35,850 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 450 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for orderlies in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,270 to $47,550; 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.
- Retained pay of $30,985, from $35,850, assumes a single Nevada filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 450 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 47 for it.
- This $31,950 adjusted figure, worked from $35,850, 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 450 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 450 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $37,710, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,270 at the tenth percentile, $47,550 at the ninetieth.
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 $31,950 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $30,985 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. 47 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 $37,710. 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 ($31,270 to $47,550) 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 $31,950 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 $30,985 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.