Parking Attendants in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$26,084
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$3,666
12.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$26,896
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
$29,750
Kept after tax
$26,084
Worth in national money
$26,896
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nevada pays parking attendants a middle wage of $29,750, 45 of 51 states and about 15.36% 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, parking attendants ranks 476. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $29,750 you keep $26,084 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $26,896 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $32,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada's $29,750 median for parking attendants places it 45 of 51 states, about 15.36% 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, parking attendants ranks 476 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 $26,084 after the full tax stack, from $29,750. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $26,896 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $32,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Parking Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $25,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $29,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $42,870 |
| This salary | $29,750 |
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 | $26,084 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $26,084 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$54 |
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 | $29,750 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$65 |
| 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 $29,750. The published range is $25,290 up to $42,870, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $26,084 take-home in Nevada comes from $29,750. 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 476 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Nevada, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $26,896, the adjusted value of that $29,750 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 476 of 485 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for parking attendants in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $25,290 to $42,870. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $26,084, from $29,750, 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 476 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 45 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Nevada, so $26,896 — the adjusted value of that $29,750 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 476 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 $32,530, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $25,290 at the tenth percentile, $42,870 at the ninetieth.
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 $26,896.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $26,084 survives, because Nevada levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $32,530. 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 ($25,290 to $42,870) 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 $26,896 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 $26,084 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.