Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,125
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$20,375
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,558
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
$98,500
Kept after tax
$78,125
Worth in national money
$80,558
State rank
31
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nevada pays this job around $98,500 at the midpoint, 31 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Within Nevada this is well-paid work. Of 485 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 77 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Here is where Nevada does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $98,500 you keep $78,125, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $80,558 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $104,290, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products the Nevada median is $98,500, ranking 31 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Ranked against every occupation Nevada publishes a median for, sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products sits 77 of 485 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After federal, FICA and Nevada income tax, retained pay for sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products on $98,500 is $78,125. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $80,558 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $104,290 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $98,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $167,810 |
| This salary | $98,500 |
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 | $78,125 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,125 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$162 |
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 | $98,500 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$223 |
| 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 sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products in Nevada earn under $98,500 and half over. The published range runs $26,470 at the tenth percentile to $167,810 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nevada's $78,125, worked from $98,500. 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 77 of 485.
- Two cautions on $80,558, the adjusted value of that $98,500 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 77 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $26,470 to $167,810; 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.
- The Nevada take-home of $78,125, on $98,500 for work ranking 77 of 485 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 77 of 485 in the state.
- This $80,558 adjusted figure, worked from $98,500, 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 77 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 77 of 485 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 $104,290 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 $26,470 at the bottom tenth to $167,810 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $80,558 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $78,125 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. 49 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 Nevada is $104,290. 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 ($26,470) and the ninetieth ($167,810) 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 $80,558 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 $78,125 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.