Nevada Wage Garnishment Calculator
Nevada takes 18% if your gross weekly pay is $770 or less and 25% above that, and always protects 50 times the federal minimum ($362.50 a week).
The $770 gross-pay dividing line
(a) Eighteen percent of the person’s disposable earnings for the relevant workweek if the person’s gross weekly salary or wage on the date the most recent writ of garnishment was issued was $770 or less; (b) Twenty-five percent … if … exceeded $770; or (c) The amount by which the person’s disposable earnings for that week exceed 50 times the federal minimum hourly wage
Two Las Vegas paychecks
A Las Vegas cook grossing $740.00 a week is under Nevada’s $770 line, so only 18% of the $660.00 disposable can be taken: $118.80. A dealer grossing $980.00 is over it, so 25% applies — $210.00 of $840.00. For both, the first $362.50 each week is protected outright.
How Nevada measures weekly pay
- Gross weekly pay is measured as your year-to-date gross divided by the weeks worked this year when the latest writ was issued; the calculator approximates it from this paycheck.§1
- Nevada’s definition of earnings includes tips and compensation already held in a bank account.§1
- Support garnishments follow the federal 50% / 60% limits, rising to 55% / 65% for support owed for periods at least 12 weeks old.§1