Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$66,025
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$15,275
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$68,081
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
$81,300
Kept after tax
$66,025
Worth in national money
$68,081
State rank
18
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Nevada is 18 of 50 states for this job, with a middle wage of $81,300. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 124 of 485 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $81,300 the take-home is $66,025; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $68,081 would nationally. The average comes to $83,500, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Nevada ranks 18 of 50 for psychology teachers, postsecondary at $81,300. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Psychology teachers, postsecondary ranks 124 of 485 occupations in Nevada 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 psychology teachers, postsecondary in Nevada, on $81,300, is $66,025 — equivalent to $68,081 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 $83,500 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,220 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $129,360 |
| This salary | $81,300 |
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 | $66,025 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,025 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$137 |
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 | $81,300 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$189 |
| 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 psychology teachers, postsecondary in Nevada earn under $81,300 and half over. The published range runs $64,220 at the tenth percentile to $129,360 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $66,025, from $81,300, 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 124 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $68,081, the adjusted value of that $81,300 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 124 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for psychology teachers, postsecondary in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $64,220 to $129,360; 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 $66,025 from $81,300. 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 124 of 485 locally.
- This $68,081 adjusted figure, worked from $81,300, 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 124 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 124 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $64,220, the highest tenth $129,360, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $68,081.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $66,025 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($64,220) and the ninetieth ($129,360) 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 $68,081 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 $66,025 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.