Slaughterers and Meat Packers in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$26,631
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$3,800
12.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,460
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
$30,430
Kept after tax
$26,631
Worth in national money
$27,460
State rank
47
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for slaughterers and meat packers is on the low side in Nevada. The middle earner gets $30,430. That is 47 of 47 states, and about 24.17% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 485 occupations Nevada publishes, slaughterers and meat packers lands at 468. 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 $30,430 you keep $26,631 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $27,460 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $33,360, since top earners drag the number up.
- For slaughterers and meat packers, Nevada sits in the lower band at $30,430, ranking 47 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 24.17%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Nevada, this work ranks 468 of 485 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 Nevada is $26,631 after the full tax stack, from $30,430. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $27,460 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $33,360 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Slaughterers and Meat Packers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $30,430 |
| Top tenth earn over | $40,870 |
| This salary | $30,430 |
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 | $26,631 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $26,631 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$55 |
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 | $30,430 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$67 |
| 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 slaughterers and meat packers in Nevada earn under $30,430 and half over. The published range runs $29,630 at the tenth percentile to $40,870 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $26,631 take-home in Nevada comes from $30,430. 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 468 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Nevada, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $27,460, the adjusted value of that $30,430 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 468 of 485 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for slaughterers and meat packers in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $29,630 to $40,870; 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.
- Retained pay of $26,631, from $30,430, 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 468 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 47 of 47 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Nevada, so $27,460 — the adjusted value of that $30,430 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 468 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 $33,360, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $29,630 at the tenth percentile, $40,870 at the ninetieth.
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 $27,460 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $26,631 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 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 $33,360. 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 ($29,630 to $40,870) 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 $27,460 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 $26,631 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.