City of Las Vegas / Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations / Accounting Technician I
Job-title file
Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.
1 employee holds this title in Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations. Median total compensation for the role is $107,116, below the department median of $156,506.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV area, the median wage for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks — about 10,320 people — is $49,960. Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations pays a median base salary of $64,020 for this role, 28% above that figure — about the 82nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks across every employer in the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks — about 1,373,680 people — is $50,670. Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations’s median base salary is 26% above that national figure, about the 78th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 3 of 4 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations is $106,182, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Accounting Technician I is held in 3 City of Las Vegas departments. In Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations, the median of $107,116 ranks #1 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Accounting Technician I role in other City of Las Vegasdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 18 jurisdictions. In City of Las Vegas, the median of $88,246 ranks #3 of 18. See Accounting Technician across all of City of Las Vegas →
Median total compensation for comparable Accounting Technician roles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
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Record list
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Accounting Technician I/Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations
Source-specific fields
At Department of Public Safety - Detention and Correction Operations, Lourdes Alvarez serves as a Accounting Technician I within Cea. Their 2023 pay totaled $107,116.