Public Relations Managers in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$89,120
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$25,010
21.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$91,896
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
$114,130
Kept after tax
$89,120
Worth in national money
$91,896
State rank
34
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nevada pays public relations managers a middle wage of $114,130, 34 of 48 states and about 22.31% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 485 occupations Nevada reports, public relations managers comes in at 31 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $114,130 you keep $89,120 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $91,896 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $135,800, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada's $114,130 median for public relations managers places it 34 of 48 states, about 22.31% 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.
- Public relations managers ranks 31 of 485 occupations by median in Nevada, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $89,120 after the full tax stack, from $114,130. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $91,896 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $135,800 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Public Relations Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $66,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $114,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $211,510 |
| This salary | $114,130 |
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 | $89,120 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $89,120 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$184 |
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 | $114,130 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$255 |
| 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 $114,130. The published range is $66,630 up to $211,510, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $89,120, from $114,130, 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 31 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $91,896, the adjusted value of that $114,130 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 31 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for public relations managers in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $66,630 to $211,510. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $89,120 from $114,130. 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 31 of 485 locally.
- This $91,896 adjusted figure, worked from $114,130, 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 31 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 31 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 $135,800, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $66,630 at the bottom tenth to $211,510 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $91,896 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $89,120 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $135,800. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($66,630) and the ninetieth ($211,510) 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 $91,896 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 $89,120 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.