Transportation Security Screeners in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,006
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$10,494
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,688
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
$64,500
Kept after tax
$54,006
Worth in national money
$55,688
State rank
21
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Nevada pays this job around $64,500 at the midpoint, 21 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 204 among 485 occupations Nevada publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $64,500 you keep $54,006 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $55,688 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $62,150.
- For transportation security screeners the Nevada median is $64,500, ranking 21 of 45 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.
- Position 204 of 485 in Nevada places transportation security screeners in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $54,006 after the full tax stack, from $64,500. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $55,688 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $62,150 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Transportation Security Screeners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,660 |
| This salary | $64,500 |
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 | $54,006 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,006 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$112 |
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 | $64,500 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$135 |
| 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 transportation security screeners in Nevada earn under $64,500 and half over. The published range runs $41,180 at the tenth percentile to $68,660 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $54,006 take-home in Nevada comes from $64,500. 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 204 of 485.
- Two cautions on $55,688, the adjusted value of that $64,500 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 204 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for transportation security screeners in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,180 to $68,660; 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 $54,006, from $64,500, 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 204 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 45 for it.
- This $55,688 adjusted figure, worked from $64,500, 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 204 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 204 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 $62,150, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $41,180 and the top tenth $68,660, so most people doing this work in Nevada sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $55,688.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $54,006 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. 45 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 $62,150. 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 ($41,180 to $68,660) 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 $55,688 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 $54,006 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.