Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,526
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$6,464
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,306
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
$43,990
Kept after tax
$37,526
Worth in national money
$41,306
State rank
46
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for drywall and ceiling tile installers is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $43,990. That is 46 of 49 states, and about 25.35% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, drywall and ceiling tile installers lands at 334. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $43,990 the take-home is $37,526; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $41,306 would nationally. The average comes to $46,820, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For drywall and ceiling tile installers, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $43,990, ranking 46 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 25.35%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Wyoming, this work ranks 334 of 433 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for drywall and ceiling tile installers in Wyoming, on $43,990, is $37,526 — equivalent to $41,306 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 $46,820 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $55,470 |
| This salary | $43,990 |
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 | $37,526 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,526 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,689 |
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 | $43,990 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,253 |
| 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 $43,990. The published range is $39,470 up to $55,470, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $37,526 take-home in Wyoming comes from $43,990. 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 334 of 433.
- Two cautions on $41,306, the adjusted value of that $43,990 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 334 of 433 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for drywall and ceiling tile installers in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,470 to $55,470. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $37,526, from $43,990, 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 334 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 49 for it.
- This $41,306 adjusted figure, worked from $43,990, 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 334 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 334 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 $46,820 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $39,470 and the top tenth $55,470, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $41,306 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $37,526 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.
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 $46,820. 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 ($39,470 to $55,470) 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 $41,306 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 $37,526 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.