Radiation Therapists in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$74,248
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$18,742
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,561
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
$92,990
Kept after tax
$74,248
Worth in national money
$76,561
State rank
40
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for radiation therapists is on the low side in Nevada. The middle earner gets $92,990. That is 40 of 46 states, and about 11.7% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 485 occupations Nevada reports, radiation therapists comes in at 94 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $92,990 you keep $74,248 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $76,561 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $107,250, since top earners drag the number up.
- For radiation therapists, Nevada sits in the lower band at $92,990, ranking 40 of 46 and trailing the national median by about 11.7%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Radiation therapists ranks 94 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 $74,248 after the full tax stack, from $92,990. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $76,561 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $107,250 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Radiation Therapists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $85,860 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $92,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $127,040 |
| This salary | $92,990 |
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 | $74,248 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $74,248 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$154 |
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 | $92,990 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$212 |
| 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 $92,990. The published range is $85,860 up to $127,040, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $74,248 take-home in Nevada comes from $92,990. 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 94 of 485.
- Two cautions on $76,561, the adjusted value of that $92,990 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 94 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for radiation therapists in Nevada the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $85,860 to $127,040. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $74,248, from $92,990, 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 94 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 46 for it.
- This $76,561 adjusted figure, worked from $92,990, 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 94 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 94 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 $107,250, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $85,860 and the top tenth $127,040, so most people doing this work in Nevada sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nevada sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $76,561 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $74,248 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $107,250. 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 ($85,860 to $127,040) 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 $76,561 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 $74,248 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.