Sales and Related Workers, All Other in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,506
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$6,254
16.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,861
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$37,760
Kept after tax
$31,506
Worth in national money
$34,861
State rank
34
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Nebraska. The middle earner gets $37,760. That is 34 of 48 states, and about 21.79% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 488 occupations Nebraska publishes, this job lands at 428. 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 $37,760 you keep $31,506 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $34,861 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $43,210, since top earners drag the number up.
- For sales and related workers, all other, Nebraska sits in the lower band at $37,760, ranking 34 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 21.79%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Nebraska, this work ranks 428 of 488 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 Nebraska is $31,506 after the full tax stack, from $37,760. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $34,861 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $43,210 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales and Related Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,870 |
| This salary | $37,760 |
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 Nebraska | $31,506 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,520 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,395 |
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 | $36,497 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,687 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,760 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $30,480 and the ninetieth is $61,870 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nebraska's $31,506, worked from $37,760. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 428 of 488.
- Two cautions on $34,861, the adjusted value of that $37,760 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. 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 428 of 488 locally.
- The Nebraska median of $37,760 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $30,480 to $61,870. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Nebraska take-home of $31,506, on $37,760 for work ranking 428 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 428 of 488 in the state.
- This $34,861 adjusted figure, worked from $37,760, 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 428 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 428 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $43,210 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $30,480 at the bottom tenth to $61,870 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. Nebraska is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $34,861 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $31,506 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 Nebraska is $43,210. 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 ($30,480) and the ninetieth ($61,870) 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?
Nebraska'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 $34,861 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $31,506 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.