Crossing Guards and Flaggers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,001
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$7,069
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,030
Wyoming costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the top tenth 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
$47,070
Kept after tax
$40,001
Worth in national money
$44,030
State rank
6
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming is one of the better-paying states for crossing guards and flaggers. The middle earner takes $47,070, which ranks 6 of 49 states with published figures. That is about 23.54% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 297 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 $47,070 you keep $40,001 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $44,030 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $43,320.
- Wyoming ranks 6 of 49 states publishing a median for crossing guards and flaggers, at $47,070 — about 23.54% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Crossing guards and flaggers ranks 297 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 $40,001 after the full tax stack, from $47,070. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $44,030 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $43,320 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Crossing Guards and Flaggers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $32,110 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,070 |
| This salary | $47,070 |
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 | $40,001 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,001 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,867 |
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 | $47,070 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,467 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,070 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $32,110 and the ninetieth is $47,070 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $40,001 take-home in Wyoming comes from $47,070. 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 297 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $44,030 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 297.
- The Wyoming median of $47,070 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $32,110 to $47,070. 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 $40,001, from $47,070, 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 297 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $44,030, worked from $47,070, 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 297 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $43,320, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $32,110 at the bottom tenth to $47,070 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 $44,030 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $40,001 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $43,320. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($32,110 to $47,070) 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 $44,030 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 $40,001 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.