Nevada personal representative compensation
Nevada applies a percentage schedule to the estate accounted for, generally net of liens and encumbrances.
Sources reviewed August 7, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.
In Nevada, the personal representative (executor) is the person the court appoints, or the will nominates, to administer the estate. Nevada compensation is governed by state statute and, where the statute permits, by the terms of the will or a court order, so the lawful Nevada fee is whatever those authorities set — not a national rule of thumb.
The calculator above applies Nevada's reviewed statutory rule to the compensable estate value you enter. The Nevada figure does not include extraordinary fees — services beyond routine administration (such as litigation, tax elections, or real-property management) that the court may approve separately on top of the ordinary compensation.
In Nevada, the compensable amount is measured against the value of the probate estate net of the liens against it, so two Nevada estates with the same headline size can produce different lawful fees when what they are made of differs. Enter the figure that matches that basis rather than the gross number on the first account statement, or the Nevada result will not reflect the rule the statute actually applies.
If the Nevada will names a specific compensation amount or formula, that term controls unless a beneficiary or the representative petitions the court for modification. When no will exists, or the will is silent on the point, the Nevada statutory rule becomes the presumptive measure of reasonable compensation for the work.
Nevada compensation map
A percentage is not a fee answer until its base is known. This Nevada map identifies the compensation standard and the accounting figure it uses, while keeping court approval and extraordinary work outside an invented total.
| Question | Recorded Nevada answer | Carry into the case |
|---|---|---|
| What route is being screened? | Set aside without administration | Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route. |
| What property and basis count? | probate property within the rule's stated scope; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. | Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately. |
| What is the amount screen? | $150,000 | Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut. |
| What is the time or deadline record? | 30 days after death; No deadline is recorded here: The creditor-notice and claim-bar deadlines have not been verified to this site's primary-source standard, so no number is published. | Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number. |
| What does the cost record establish? | 2 published schedules; the proceeding and value basis control the total. | Ask the District Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings. |
| What does compensation use? | Nevada applies a percentage schedule to the estate accounted for, generally net of liens and encumbrances. The relevant base is probate property after enforceable liens. | Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate. |
Compensation record
This is the registry view of the compensation rule, separate from the calculator result. It shows whether a rate schedule exists and what accounting base the schedule names. A blank band is not permission to borrow a percentage from another state.
| Compensation band | Rate | Read with |
|---|---|---|
| Up to $15,000 | 4% | probate property after enforceable liens |
| The next band through $100,000 | 3% | probate property after enforceable liens |
| Above the prior band | 2% | probate property after enforceable liens |
Case-file context
A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Nevada descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.
Nevada offers both a court set-aside procedure and a narrower affidavit procedure, each with its own waiting period.
A court may set aside an estate not exceeding $150,000 after 30 days, measured at fair market value less enforceable liens and encumbrances as of the date of death. The separate affidavit route usually has a lower limit and excludes Nevada real property.
The NRS 19.013 base petition fee is $72 when the stated estate value exceeds $2,500, and nothing at $2,500 or less. A petition for letters testamentary or letters of administration also carries a separate additional fee under NRS 19.0302(1)(c): nothing at $20,000 or less, $99 above $20,000 and below $300,000, and $352 at $300,000 or more.
2 published schedules; the proceeding and value basis control the total.
No deadline is recorded here: The creditor-notice and claim-bar deadlines have not been verified to this site's primary-source standard, so no number is published.
Court-material note: Nevada runs two separate small-estate tracks. The published affidavit form belongs to the affidavit track, not to the $150,000 court set-aside track that this page models.
Arithmetic illustration
The recorded Nevada ceiling is $150,000, and it is tested against probate property within the rule's stated scope, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $112,500 sits below the Nevada figure and $187,500 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Nevada counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.
| Illustrative counted amount | Comparison to the Nevada ceiling | What it does not decide |
|---|---|---|
| $112,500 | Below $150,000 | Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties |
| $187,500 | Above $150,000 | Whether another statutory route or court process applies |
Next evidence to collect
Official material
Nevada runs two separate small-estate tracks. The published affidavit form belongs to the affidavit track, not to the $150,000 court set-aside track that this page models.
Source trail
Nevada does not set one flat percentage. The rate steps down as the compensable figure grows, and each rate applies only to its own band — so the whole figure is never multiplied by the top rate or the bottom one. The published bands are:
| Band of the compensable figure | Rate |
|---|---|
| on the first $15,000 | 4% |
| on the next $85,000 | 3% |
| on the balance above $100,000 | 2% |
The bands are read against the value of the probate property after the enforceable liens against it are subtracted, not the headline gross value. That distinction changes the Nevada answer: two estates of the same headline size produce different lawful commissions when the figure the schedule actually measures differs between them.
No single band is priced for you here, because Nevada keys the schedule to a figure the estate’s own accounting establishes rather than to a number an asset list can supply. Use the calculator above once you have that figure, and treat any court-approved extraordinary compensation, or a fee a will fixes, as separate from this ordinary schedule.
Each legal input links to the government source reviewed for this page. Source text can change; confirm the current rule before acting.
Reviewed source note: 1. If no compensation is provided by the will, or the personal representative renounces all claims thereto, fees must be allowed upon the whole amount of the estate which has been accounted for, less liens and encumbrances, as follows: (a) For the first $15,000, at the rate of 4 percent. (b) For the next $85,000, at the rate of 3 percent. (c) For all above $100,000, at the rate of 2 percent.