How much do metal-refining furnace operators and tenders make in Nevada?

The median wage for metal-refining furnace operators and tenders in Nevada is $56,790 a year, or $27.31 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for metal-refining furnace operators and tenders in Nevada is $58,370 a year. The median is $56,790.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

The median hourly wage is $27.31. At a full-time year that lines up with about $56,790 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Nevada, the lowest-paid 10% of metal-refining furnace operators and tenders earn under $40,590 a year and a quarter earn under $46,290 ($19.52 and $22.25 an hour).

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for metal-refining furnace operators and tenders in Nevada spans from $40,590 for the bottom 10% to $79,020 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $46,290 and $62,700 a year, with the overall median at $56,790.

On the median wage of $56,790, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $47,811 a year, or roughly $3,984 a month.

That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 15.8%.

Nevada levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.

On the median annual salary of $56,790, estimated take-home pay is roughly $3,984 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $1,839 net.

Yes. The median in Nevada is 4.3% above the national median of $54,430.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Nevada sit at 100 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.73 times the median household income of $78,260. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Nevada run at 100 against a national average of 100, with rents at 114.1, so $56,790 here buys about what $56,802 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $79,020 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $40,590.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Nevada someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 130 of these jobs in Nevada for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 24% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.