Cost Estimators in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$72,701
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$18,089
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,025
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
$90,790
Kept after tax
$72,701
Worth in national money
$80,025
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Wyoming pays cost estimators a middle wage of $90,790, ranking 3 of 51 states and sitting about 15.3% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 433 occupations Wyoming reports, cost estimators comes in at 67 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $90,790 you keep $72,701, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $80,025 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $88,240, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Wyoming's median for cost estimators is $90,790, about 15.3% above the national figure and 3 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Cost estimators ranks 67 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for cost estimators on $90,790 is $72,701. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $80,025 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 $88,240 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Cost Estimators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $90,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $108,490 |
| This salary | $90,790 |
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 | $72,701 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $72,701 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,210 |
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 | $90,790 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,197 |
| 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 $90,790. The published range is $52,680 up to $108,490, 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 $72,701, worked from $90,790. 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 67 of 433.
- Two cautions on $80,025, the adjusted value of that $90,790 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 67 of 433 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for cost estimators in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $52,680 to $108,490. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Wyoming take-home of $72,701, on $90,790 for work ranking 67 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 67 of 433 in the state.
- This $80,025 adjusted figure, worked from $90,790, 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 67 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 67 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $52,680 at the tenth percentile, $108,490 at the ninetieth.
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 $80,025.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $72,701 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($52,680 to $108,490) 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 $80,025 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 $72,701 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.