Atmospheric and Space Scientists in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,138
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$20,802
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,110
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
$99,940
Kept after tax
$79,138
Worth in national money
$87,110
State rank
24
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming sits in the middle of the pack for atmospheric and space scientists. The median is $99,940, ranking 24 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 433 occupations Wyoming reports, atmospheric and space scientists comes in at 48 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $99,940 you keep $79,138 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $87,110 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $100,040, since top earners drag the number up.
- Wyoming occupies the middle band for atmospheric and space scientists: a median of $99,940, ranking 24 of 47. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Atmospheric and space scientists ranks 48 of 433 occupations by median in Wyoming, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $79,138 after the full tax stack, from $99,940. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $87,110 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $100,040 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Atmospheric and Space Scientists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,500 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $132,180 |
| This salary | $99,940 |
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 | $79,138 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,138 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,672 |
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 | $99,940 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,834 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $99,940 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $63,500 and the ninetieth is $132,180 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $79,138 take-home in Wyoming comes from $99,940. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 48 of 433.
- Two cautions on $87,110, the adjusted value of that $99,940 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wyoming. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 48 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $99,940 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $63,500 to $132,180. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $79,138, from $99,940, assumes a single Wyoming filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 48 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 24 of 47 for it.
- This $87,110 adjusted figure, worked from $99,940, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 48 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 48 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $63,500 at the bottom tenth to $132,180 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Wyoming is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $87,110 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $79,138 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($63,500 to $132,180) 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 $87,110 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 $79,138 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.