Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,673
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$11,097
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,643
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
$57,770
Kept after tax
$46,673
Worth in national money
$51,643
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Nebraska. The middle earner gets $57,770. That is 45 of 51 states, and about 17.46% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 247 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $57,770 you keep $46,673 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $51,643 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $66,920, since top earners drag the number up.
- For sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel, Nebraska sits in the lower band at $57,770, ranking 45 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 17.46%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel ranks 247 of 488 occupations in Nebraska 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.
- Retained pay in Nebraska is $46,673 after the full tax stack, from $57,770. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $51,643 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $66,920 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,770 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,100 |
| This salary | $57,770 |
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 | $46,673 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,598 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,632 |
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 | $55,374 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,974 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Nebraska earn less than $57,770. The published range is $34,370 up to $104,100, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nebraska's $46,673, worked from $57,770. 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 247 of 488.
- Two cautions on $51,643, the adjusted value of that $57,770 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 247 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel in Nebraska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,370 to $104,100. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Nebraska take-home of $46,673, on $57,770 for work ranking 247 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 247 of 488 in the state.
- This $51,643 adjusted figure, worked from $57,770, 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 247 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 247 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $66,920, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $34,370, the highest tenth $104,100, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nebraska sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $51,643 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Nebraska then takes its own share, leaving $46,673.
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 Nebraska is $66,920. 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 ($34,370) and the ninetieth ($104,100) 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 $51,643 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 $46,673 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.
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.