Nevada
Nevada has a sales tax, but residential and commercial cleaning are treated as not taxable, inferred from the Department of Taxation's statement that services not tied to a sale of tangible personal property aren't subject to it. Nevada doesn't tax wages, and the minimum wage is a single $12.00 an hour, with no change announced as of October 20, 2026.
For a Nevada cleaning company, the minimum wage carries more detail than the sales tax. It's a single $12.00 rate, and the Labor Commissioner's bulletins label its start date in different ways. Below I cover sales tax, the ABC test, payroll registration, the minimum wage, and what all of it means for your books.
Nevada has a sales tax, but residential and commercial cleaning are treated as not taxable. That's an inference from the Department of Taxation's statement that services not tied to a sale of tangible personal property, with consulting as its example, are not subject to sales tax. Cleaning and janitorial work aren't named. More on my page about Nevada sales tax on cleaning services.
Source: Nevada Department of Taxation, Sales Tax FAQs
Nevada uses the ABC test for unemployment insurance, in NRS 612.085. How employees and subcontractors each show up in the books is in 1099 subcontractors vs. W-2 employees. Whether a particular cleaner is an employee is a legal question for your CPA or an employment attorney.
Source: Nevada Legislature, NRS Chapter 612, Unemployment Compensation (Rev. 4/15/2026)
Nevada doesn't tax wages, so there's no state income tax withholding account. Unemployment insurance is with the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, Employment Security Division. This page doesn't include a registration link for that account.
Source: Nevada Department of Taxation, Tax Information for Nevada (Income Tax in Nevada)
Source: Nevada DETR, Employment Security Division, Contributions Newsletter (December 2025)
Nevada's minimum wage is $12.00 an hour, a single rate. It began on July 1, 2024, according to the Labor Commissioner's November 2023 bulletin table and the AJR 10 resolution text. The current bulletin, posted June 29, 2026, restates $12.00 but labels it effective July 1, 2025 in its text and July 1, 2026 in its table, and it announces no change. Under the AJR 10 text as passed by the Legislature, the rate isn't indexed and stays at $12.00 unless the federal minimum wage rises above $12.00. That rule comes from the resolution text, not from the constitution as currently published.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, State Minimum Wage Laws (updated July 1, 2026)
Source: Nevada Labor Commissioner, 2026 Minimum Wage Bulletin (posted June 29, 2026)
Source: Nevada Labor Commissioner, 2023 Minimum Wage Bulletin (November 14, 2023)
Source: Nevada Legislature, Assembly Joint Resolution No. 10 (80th Session), enrolled
There's no collected sales tax on cleaning to hold in Nevada, by inference from the general rule, so most of the bookkeeping attention goes to labor. A wage rate in your books isn't just a figure on a poster. It's the cost behind every hour on every job, it's the base your payroll records are built on, and it's the number that tells you whether a contract still pays. Payroll goes in at what each person is actually paid, and my payroll for cleaning businesses page covers how that's recorded. Receipts still get recorded in full and tied to deposits.
I'm a bookkeeper, not a CPA or an Enrolled Agent. I keep payroll and receipts recorded accurately; whether any of your work is tied to a sale of goods, and what that means for tax, is a question for your CPA.
Rules checked against the sources above as of October 20, 2026. Rates and rules change; confirm current figures with the agency or your CPA.
About Figure Eight Financial
Figure Eight Financial is Dave Gordon’s bookkeeping practice for residential and commercial cleaning companies. I work with owners in Nevada and across the country, and I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before bookkeeping I studied computer science at Penn State and spent a career at IBM as an engineer, so I build the books as a system: data comes in once, lands in the right place, and ties back to a statement. I’m a bookkeeper, not a CPA or Enrolled Agent. I keep the books your CPA works from, and the tax decisions stay with your CPA.
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In Nevada the bookkeeping weight sits on labor, so payroll is recorded at the wage each person is actually paid and every hour lands on the job it belongs to. Receipts are recorded in full and tied to deposits, even with no sales tax to hold on cleaning, by inference from the general rule. Book a short call below and we'll look at your Nevada labor costs together.
The core service. Transactions recorded and categorized, every account reconciled so the books and the bank agree, and monthly reports that arrive explained, split by residential and commercial and sliceable per contract.
The full picture of how this works for a cleaning companyFor the months where nothing got entered at all. I fill in the missing periods from the ground up, pulling bank feeds, statements, and receipts until every month has a complete set of records.
How catch-up bookkeeping worksFor books that exist but can’t be trusted. I audit what’s there, fix the unreconciled accounts, duplicate transactions, and wrong categories, and tie every balance back to a statement.
How cleanup bookkeeping worksYour crews paid on time, every pay period, with each payroll run recorded in the books so labor shows up against the jobs it belongs to.
How payroll worksRecurring invoices that match your contracts, an aging report you can trust, and follow-up on slow payers handled by a process instead of your evenings. Built for net-60 commercial accounts.
How invoicing and receivables workA file built right for a cleaning company from day one, or rebuilt after the DIY version drifts, and then I teach you to run it. I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, and this is honestly my favorite part of the job.
How a proper setup worksWe start with a short call about your business and where the books stand. The first conversation doesn’t cost anything.
I take a look at what you’ve got, your QuickBooks file, your spreadsheet, whatever exists.
You get a written proposal with the price, so the decision is yours with the number in hand.
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If you clean in Nevada and want your labor costs recorded at the wage your crews really earn, send me a note. The first conversation doesn't cost anything.
