Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,739
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$9,451
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,750
Wyoming costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wyoming — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$59,190
Kept after tax
$49,739
Worth in national money
$54,750
State rank
48
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays this job a middle wage of $59,190, 48 of 49 states and about 24.71% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 433 occupations Wyoming reports figures for, this is number 217.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $59,190 you keep $49,739, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $54,750 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $63,900, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming's $59,190 median for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary places it 48 of 49 states, about 24.71% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- In Wyoming's occupational distribution, art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary sits at 217 of 433 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary on $59,190 is $49,739. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $54,750 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $63,900 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,190 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,030 |
| This salary | $59,190 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Wyoming | $49,739 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,739 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,565 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $59,190 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,311 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Wyoming earn less than $59,190. The published range is $47,960 up to $79,030, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $49,739, worked from $59,190. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 217 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $54,750 uses one figure for the whole of Wyoming. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 433 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 217.
- Reported values are medians; for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,960 to $79,030. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Wyoming take-home of $49,739, on $59,190 for work ranking 217 of 433 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 217 of 433 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $54,750, worked from $59,190, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Wyoming address, on work sitting at 217 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $63,900, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $47,960 and the top tenth $79,030, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $54,750.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $49,739 of this wage reaches your account, because Wyoming takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Wyoming is $63,900. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,960 to $79,030) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wyoming rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wyoming's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $54,750 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Wyoming levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $49,739 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.