Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,496
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$10,614
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,193
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
$65,110
Kept after tax
$54,496
Worth in national money
$56,193
State rank
24
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Nevada sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $65,110, ranking 24 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Nevada, this sits in the middle: 198 of 485 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 $65,110 you keep $54,496 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $56,193 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $67,760, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada occupies the middle band for special education teachers, kindergarten and elementary school: a median of $65,110, ranking 24 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Special education teachers, kindergarten and elementary school ranks 198 of 485 occupations in Nevada 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 Nevada is $54,496 after the full tax stack, from $65,110. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $56,193 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $67,760 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten and Elementary School
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,550 |
| This salary | $65,110 |
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 | $54,496 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,496 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$113 |
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 | $65,110 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$136 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $65,110 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,810 and the ninetieth is $93,550 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $54,496, from $65,110, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 198 of 485 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,193 uses one figure for the whole of Nevada. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 485 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 198.
- The Nevada median of $65,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,810 to $93,550. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $54,496 from $65,110. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 198 of 485 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,193, worked from $65,110, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Nevada address, on work sitting at 198 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 $67,760, 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 — $47,810 at the tenth percentile, $93,550 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 $56,193 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $54,496 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $67,760. 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 ($47,810 to $93,550) 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 $56,193 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 $54,496 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.
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.