Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,532
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$7,688
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,816
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
$50,220
Kept after tax
$42,532
Worth in national money
$46,816
State rank
14
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Wyoming's middle earner gets $50,220, putting the state 14 of 50 — about 4.08% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 264 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $50,220 you keep $42,532, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $46,816 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $56,200, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders, Wyoming sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $50,220, ranking 14 of 50 and running about 4.08% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 264 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders on $50,220 is $42,532. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $46,816 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 $56,200 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,210 |
| This salary | $50,220 |
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 | $42,532 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,532 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,048 |
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 | $50,220 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,686 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $50,220 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,230 and the ninetieth is $77,210 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $42,532 take-home in Wyoming comes from $50,220. 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 264 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,816 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 264.
- The Wyoming median of $50,220 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,230 to $77,210. 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 $42,532, from $50,220, 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 264 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,816, worked from $50,220, 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 264 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $56,200 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $39,230, the highest tenth $77,210, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $46,816 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $42,532 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $56,200. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($39,230) and the ninetieth ($77,210) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $46,816 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 $42,532 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.