Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,610
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$23,770
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$81,448
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$97,380
Kept after tax
$73,610
Worth in national money
$81,448
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Nebraska pays this job a middle wage of $97,380, 45 of 51 states and about 9.19% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Nebraska this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 54 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $97,380 you keep $73,610 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $81,448 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $102,100, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nebraska's $97,380 median for transportation, storage, and distribution managers places it 45 of 51 states, about 9.19% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Ranked against every occupation Nebraska publishes a median for, transportation, storage, and distribution managers sits 54 of 488 — 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.
- Retained pay in Nebraska is $73,610 after the full tax stack, from $97,380. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $81,448 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $102,100 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $147,110 |
| This salary | $97,380 |
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 Nebraska | $73,610 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,337 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,863 |
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 | $92,082 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,573 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $97,380 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $64,320 and the ninetieth is $147,110 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Nebraska's $73,610, worked from $97,380. 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 54 of 488.
- Two cautions on $81,448, the adjusted value of that $97,380 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. 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 54 of 488 locally.
- The Nebraska median of $97,380 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $64,320 to $147,110. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Nebraska take-home of $73,610, on $97,380 for work ranking 54 of 488 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 54 of 488 in the state.
- This $81,448 adjusted figure, worked from $97,380, 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 54 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 54 of 488 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 $102,100 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $64,320 and the top tenth $147,110 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nebraska sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $81,448 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Nebraska's own levy, $73,610 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Nebraska is $102,100. 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 ($64,320) and the ninetieth ($147,110) 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?
Nebraska'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 $81,448 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $73,610 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.