Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in Nevada
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,487
after federal, FICA and Nevada tax
Tax takes
$6,944
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,716
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
$46,430
Kept after tax
$39,487
Worth in national money
$40,716
State rank
23
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Nevada sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $46,430, ranking 23 of 49 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: 360 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 $46,430 you keep $39,487 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $40,716 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $48,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nevada occupies the middle band for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping: a median of $46,430, ranking 23 of 49. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping ranks 360 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 $39,487 after the full tax stack, from $46,430. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $40,716 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $48,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,020 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,430 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,500 |
| This salary | $46,430 |
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 | $39,487 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,487 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$82 |
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 | $46,430 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$99 |
| 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 weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Nevada earn under $46,430 and half over. The published range runs $38,020 at the tenth percentile to $63,500 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Nevada the take-home figure of $39,487, from $46,430, 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 360 of 485 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $40,716, the adjusted value of that $46,430 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 360 of 485 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Nevada, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,020 to $63,500; 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.
- Take-home for Nevada is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,487 from $46,430. 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 360 of 485 locally.
- This $40,716 adjusted figure, worked from $46,430, 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 360 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 360 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 $48,510, 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 — $38,020 at the tenth percentile, $63,500 at the ninetieth.
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 $40,716.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $39,487 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $48,510. 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 ($38,020 to $63,500) 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 $40,716 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 $39,487 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.