Community Health Workers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,585
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$8,435
15.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,177
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
$54,020
Kept after tax
$45,585
Worth in national money
$50,177
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for community health workers is strong here. Wyoming's middle earner gets $54,020, putting the state 15 of 51 — about 4.19% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 248 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 $54,020 you keep $45,585 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $50,177 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $58,310, since top earners drag the number up.
- For community health workers, Wyoming sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $54,020, ranking 15 of 51 and running about 4.19% 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.
- Community health workers ranks 248 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 $45,585 after the full tax stack, from $54,020. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $50,177 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $58,310 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Community Health Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $54,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,600 |
| This salary | $54,020 |
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 | $45,585 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $45,585 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,267 |
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 | $54,020 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,951 |
| 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 $54,020. The published range is $39,520 up to $79,600, 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 $45,585, worked from $54,020. 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 248 of 433.
- Two cautions on $50,177, the adjusted value of that $54,020 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 248 of 433 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for community health workers in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,520 to $79,600. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Wyoming take-home of $45,585, on $54,020 for work ranking 248 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 248 of 433 in the state.
- This $50,177 adjusted figure, worked from $54,020, 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 248 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 248 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 $58,310, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $39,520 and the top tenth $79,600 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $50,177.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $45,585 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $58,310. 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 ($39,520) and the ninetieth ($79,600) 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 $50,177 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 $45,585 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.