Urban and Regional Planners in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,208
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$20,832
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$81,675
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
$100,040
Kept after tax
$79,208
Worth in national money
$81,675
State rank
7
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for urban and regional planners is strong here. Nevada's middle earner gets $100,040, putting the state 7 of 51 — about 12% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Nevada. It ranks 66 out of 485 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $100,040 you keep $79,208 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $81,675 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $103,380, since top earners drag the number up.
- For urban and regional planners, Nevada sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $100,040, ranking 7 of 51 and running about 12% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Nevada, urban and regional planners ranks 66 of 485 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in Nevada is $79,208 after the full tax stack, from $100,040. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $81,675 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $103,380 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Urban and Regional Planners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $100,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $168,740 |
| This salary | $100,040 |
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 | $79,208 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,208 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$164 |
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 | $100,040 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$226 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $100,040 as a midpoint for Nevada, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $65,530 and the ninetieth is $168,740 — 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 Nevada's $79,208, worked from $100,040. 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 66 of 485.
- Two cautions on $81,675, the adjusted value of that $100,040 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 66 of 485 locally.
- The Nevada median of $100,040 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $65,530 to $168,740. 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 Nevada take-home of $79,208, on $100,040 for work ranking 66 of 485 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 66 of 485 in the state.
- This $81,675 adjusted figure, worked from $100,040, 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 66 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 66 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 $103,380, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $65,530, the highest tenth $168,740, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $81,675 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $79,208 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $103,380. 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 ($65,530) and the ninetieth ($168,740) 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?
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 $81,675 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 $79,208 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.