Child, Family, and School Social Workers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,513
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$8,907
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,300
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
$56,420
Kept after tax
$47,513
Worth in national money
$52,300
State rank
30
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $56,420, ranking 30 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 231 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $56,420 you keep $47,513 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $52,300 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $55,090.
- Wyoming occupies the middle band for child, family, and school social workers: a median of $56,420, ranking 30 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Child, family, and school social workers ranks 231 of 433 occupations in Wyoming by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $47,513 after the full tax stack, from $56,420. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $52,300 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $55,090 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Child, Family, and School Social Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,870 |
| This salary | $56,420 |
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 | $47,513 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,513 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,405 |
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 | $56,420 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,118 |
| 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 $56,420. The published range is $34,280 up to $74,870, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $47,513 take-home in Wyoming comes from $56,420. 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 231 of 433.
- Two cautions on $52,300, the adjusted value of that $56,420 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 231 of 433 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for child, family, and school social workers in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,280 to $74,870. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $47,513, from $56,420, 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 231 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 51 for it.
- This $52,300 adjusted figure, worked from $56,420, 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 231 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 231 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $34,280 at the bottom tenth to $74,870 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 $52,300 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $47,513 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,280 to $74,870) 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 $52,300 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 $47,513 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.