Average annual salaries for Nevada’s state and local government workers rose 2.2 percent in 2009 from $55,700 to $56,900.
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Average annual salaries for Nevada’s state and local government workers rose 2.2 percent in 2009 from $55,700 to $56,900.
Nevada state employees earned 107 percent of the national state government average; local government employees (excluding teachers) earned 129 percent of the national average.
Topping the list of highest paid workers are firefighters (149 percent of the national average); water supply employees (144 percent of the national average); other fire employees (139 percent of the national average); and sewerage employees (133 percent of the national average).
79,200 out of a total of 115,400 (69%) of all state and local government employees were in job categories reporting higher-than-average wages in 2009.