Curators in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,925
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$9,985
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,156
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
$61,910
Kept after tax
$51,925
Worth in national money
$57,156
State rank
24
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wyoming pays curators around $61,910 at the midpoint, 24 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Curators ranks 189 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $61,910 the take-home is $51,925; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $57,156 would nationally. The average lands at $60,430, below the middle of the range.
- For curators the Wyoming median is $61,910, ranking 24 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 189 of 433 in Wyoming places curators in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Post-tax income for curators in Wyoming, on $61,910, is $51,925 — equivalent to $57,156 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $60,430 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Curators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,690 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,430 |
| This salary | $61,910 |
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 | $51,925 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,925 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,721 |
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 | $61,910 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,501 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,910 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,690 and the ninetieth is $82,430 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $51,925, from $61,910, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 189 of 433 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $57,156, the adjusted value of that $61,910 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 189 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $61,910 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,690 to $82,430. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Wyoming is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $51,925 from $61,910. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 189 of 433 locally.
- This $57,156 adjusted figure, worked from $61,910, 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 189 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 189 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,690 and the top tenth $82,430 — 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 $57,156.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,925 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.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,690) and the ninetieth ($82,430) 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 $57,156 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 $51,925 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.