Highest Paying Jobs in Nevada

Top 100 occupations ranked by median annual salary — Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025

Highest Salary

$419,410

Dermatologists

Top 25 Average

$208,386

median salary

$100K+ Jobs

occupations

Occupations

100

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This ranking surfaces the 100 highest-paying occupations in Nevada by BLS OEWS state median salary, drawn from the May 2025 release. At the top, Dermatologists pays a state median of $419,410, +28% above the national median of $328,730 for the same role. Of the 100 tracked positions, 94 pay above $100,000 per year in Nevada — a useful threshold for separating specialist professional roles from mid-tier employment. The top-10 average sits at $297,324, giving a sense of what elite specialists inside this state actually clear.

The "Difference" column compares each state median to the corresponding national median for the same SOC code, making pay premiums and discounts immediately visible. In this list, 50 of 100 occupations pay above the national median in Nevada, which usually signals one of three things: a local concentration of specialized employers (finance hubs, tech clusters, research universities, federal agencies), a cost-of-living adjustment baked into state-wide wage scales, or scarce in-state talent supply bidding up competitive roles. Occupations paying below the national median are not necessarily bad news — they often reflect lower cost of living in the state or industries where Nevada is not a concentrated employer.

Rankings like this show ceiling-potential by specialty, but they don't tell you the odds of landing one of those roles. Pair this table with the employment column (how many workers the state actually employs in each occupation) and the growth projections on each occupation's national page to see whether the field is expanding or contracting. BLS wages exclude benefits, bonuses, and overtime — especially distorting for top-paying roles where equity and performance compensation can represent 30-50% of total pay. Use this leaderboard to shortlist careers worth exploring in Nevada, then drill into each row's linked profile to check percentile spread, typical education, metro-level variation, and whether projected openings match your timeline.

#	Occupation	State Median	National	Difference	Employment
1	Dermatologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$419,410	$328,730	+28% above	N/A
2	Radiologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$386,210	$420,860	8% below	410
3	Physicians, Pathologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$384,350	$312,400	+23% above	40
4	Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$345,600	$300,080	+15% above	N/A
5	Surgeons, All Other Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$326,520	$414,010	21% below	N/A
6	Physicians, All Other Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$252,120	$265,930	5% below	2,400
7	Family Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$251,550	$244,180	+3% above	340
8	Psychiatrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$210,030	$281,870	25% below	90
9	Podiatrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$204,990	$160,300	+28% above	70
10	Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$192,460	$232,140	17% below	2,160
11	Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates Legal Occupations	$166,360	$153,990	+8% above	90
12	Computer and Information Systems Managers Management Occupations	$165,000	$175,140	6% below	3,610
13	Dentists, General Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$162,200	$170,950	5% below	1,100
14	Architectural and Engineering Managers Management Occupations	$161,560	$171,270	6% below	780
15	Physicists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$154,030	$172,250	11% below	50
16	Lawyers Legal Occupations	$150,510	$159,670	6% below	6,490
17	Chief Executives Management Occupations	$149,770	$213,990	30% below	1,370
18	Psychologists, All Other Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$146,850	$110,840	+32% above	100
19	Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers Construction and Extraction Occupations	$141,950	$109,910	+29% above	510
20	Air Traffic Controllers Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$140,920	$148,080	5% below	210
21	Nurse Practitioners Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$140,670	$132,300	+6% above	1,930
22	Database Architects Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$140,200	$139,500	+1% above	420
23	Pharmacists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$140,030	$140,910	1% below	2,500
24	Power Distributors and Dispatchers Production Occupations	$138,300	$106,730	+30% above	100
25	Computer Network Architects Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$138,060	$134,050	+3% above	1,010
26	Optometrists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$135,650	$136,570	1% below	430
27	Physician Assistants Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$134,660	$135,880	1% below	1,090
28	Computer and Information Research Scientists Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$134,310	$140,300	4% below	80
29	Audiologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$133,110	$95,780	+39% above	N/A
30	Financial Managers Management Occupations	$132,490	$166,570	20% below	8,090
31	Actuaries Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$132,370	$130,000	+2% above	120
32	First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives Protective Service Occupations	$132,100	$106,040	+25% above	1,300
33	Power Plant Operators Production Occupations	$131,400	$102,040	+29% above	250
34	Software Developers Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$128,810	$135,980	5% below	4,520
35	Human Resources Managers Management Occupations	$128,550	$149,280	14% below	1,520
36	Veterinarians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$125,550	$130,100	3% below	680
37	Social Workers, All Other Community and Social Service Occupations	$121,830	$71,900	+69% above	370
38	Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$121,660	$115,160	+6% above	80
39	Purchasing Managers Management Occupations	$120,270	$148,080	19% below	450
40	Medical and Health Services Managers Management Occupations	$119,990	$123,860	3% below	5,360
41	Athletes and Sports Competitors Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations	$119,780	$66,710	+80% above	160
42	Computer Hardware Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$116,530	$161,740	28% below	160
43	Electronics Engineers, Except Computer Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$116,180	$130,220	11% below	360
44	Crane and Tower Operators Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$115,840	$68,080	+70% above	380
45	Dental Hygienists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$115,290	$98,100	+18% above	1,510
46	Construction Managers Management Occupations	$115,250	$114,990	same as	4,460
47	Compensation and Benefits Managers Management Occupations	$115,180	$149,230	23% below	180
48	Public Relations Managers Management Occupations	$114,130	$146,910	22% below	450
49	Insulation Workers, Mechanical Construction and Extraction Occupations	$114,130	$58,340	+96% above	250
50	General Internal Medicine Physicians Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$114,090	$256,560	56% below	390
51	Industrial Production Managers Management Occupations	$112,270	$126,060	11% below	1,620
52	Natural Sciences Managers Management Occupations	$112,260	$167,220	33% below	320
53	Managers, All Other Management Occupations	$112,040	$141,900	21% below	9,110
54	Physical Therapists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$111,250	$102,760	+8% above	2,030
55	Occupational Therapists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$110,520	$100,330	+10% above	1,080
56	Sales Managers Management Occupations	$109,790	$148,270	26% below	5,770
57	Environmental Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$109,720	$107,110	+2% above	290
58	Database Administrators Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$109,670	$104,620	+5% above	380
59	Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary Management Occupations	$109,420	$105,870	+3% above	2,490
60	Atmospheric and Space Scientists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$109,300	$99,070	+10% above	120
61	Nuclear Medicine Technologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$109,150	$101,370	+8% above	120
62	Hydrologists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$107,930	$96,600	+12% above	170
63	Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$107,890	$109,270	1% below	290
64	Marketing Managers Management Occupations	$107,550	$166,790	36% below	3,430
65	Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$107,500	$106,220	+1% above	470
66	Electrical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$107,400	$120,630	11% below	1,100
67	First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers Protective Service Occupations	$107,260	$77,970	+38% above	190
68	Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$106,640	$96,980	+10% above	140
69	Fundraising Managers Management Occupations	$106,420	$125,470	15% below	150
70	Information Security Analysts Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$106,200	$129,180	18% below	1,330
71	Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$105,860	$103,170	+3% above	60
72	Emergency Management Directors Management Occupations	$105,570	$93,330	+13% above	60
73	Commercial Pilots Transportation and Material Moving Occupations	$105,340	$123,220	15% below	1,100
74	Speech-Language Pathologists Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$104,510	$97,870	+7% above	1,270
75	Civil Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$104,310	$100,840	+3% above	3,560
76	Computer Systems Analysts Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$104,060	$105,850	2% below	2,540
77	Engineers, All Other Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$103,780	$122,930	16% below	870
78	Registered Nurses Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$103,670	$97,550	+6% above	27,070
79	Network and Computer Systems Administrators Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$103,440	$99,130	+4% above	1,980
80	Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$102,980	$82,890	+24% above	50
81	Mathematicians Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$102,890	$126,710	19% below	70
82	Mechanical Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$102,680	$104,110	1% below	1,410
83	Clinical and Counseling Psychologists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$102,650	$100,580	+2% above	680
84	Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations	$102,210	$84,890	+20% above	120
85	Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers Construction and Extraction Occupations	$102,130	$58,970	+73% above	460
86	Industrial Engineers Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$102,090	$102,440	same as	1,570
87	Facilities Managers Management Occupations	$101,850	$106,660	5% below	1,250
88	Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary Educational Instruction and Library Occupations	$101,640	$93,250	+9% above	60
89	Architects, Except Landscape and Naval Architecture and Engineering Occupations	$101,570	$99,280	+2% above	530
90	Insurance Underwriters Business and Financial Operations Occupations	$101,440	$81,370	+25% above	480
91	Surgical Assistants Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations	$100,820	$66,800	+51% above	230
92	Computer Occupations, All Other Computer and Mathematical Occupations	$100,220	$116,580	14% below	2,610
93	Urban and Regional Planners Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$100,040	$89,320	+12% above	270
94	Financial Risk Specialists Business and Financial Operations Occupations	$100,010	$117,330	15% below	570
95	Project Management Specialists Business and Financial Operations Occupations	$99,940	$102,320	2% below	8,290
96	Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$99,890	$101,920	2% below	520
97	Epidemiologists Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	$99,880	$87,220	+15% above	80
98	Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers Management Occupations	$99,860	$107,230	7% below	2,250
99	General and Operations Managers Management Occupations	$99,390	$105,770	6% below	38,920
100	Training and Development Managers Management Occupations	$99,110	$133,000	25% below	620

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About This Data

All salary data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, May 2025. State-level data reflects wages for workers employed in Nevada. The "Difference" column shows how Nevada pay compares to the national median for that occupation.

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Reviewed byWageDex Editorial, Occupational Wages Editorial Team · June 3, 2026

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