Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,769
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$5,301
13.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,790
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
$38,070
Kept after tax
$32,769
Worth in national money
$33,790
State rank
22
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nevada pays this job around $38,070 at the midpoint, 22 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 485 occupations Nevada publishes, this job lands at 425. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Nevada is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $38,070 the take-home is $32,769; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $33,790 would nationally. The average comes to $38,870, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For switchboard operators, including answering service the Nevada median is $38,070, ranking 22 of 46 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.
- Within Nevada, this work ranks 425 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.
- Post-tax income for switchboard operators, including answering service in Nevada, on $38,070, is $32,769 — equivalent to $33,790 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $38,870 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,400 |
| This salary | $38,070 |
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 | $32,769 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,769 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$68 |
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 | $38,070 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$82 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $38,070 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,600 and the ninetieth is $48,400 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $32,769 take-home in Nevada comes from $38,070. 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 425 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $33,790 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 425.
- The Nevada median of $38,070 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,600 to $48,400. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $32,769, from $38,070, 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 425 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 46 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $33,790, worked from $38,070, 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 425 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,600 at the tenth percentile, $48,400 at the ninetieth.
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 $33,790 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $32,769 of this wage reaches your account, because Nevada takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,600 to $48,400) 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 $33,790 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 $32,769 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.