Editors in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,711
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$6,999
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,712
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
$46,710
Kept after tax
$39,711
Worth in national money
$43,712
State rank
48
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays editors a middle wage of $46,710, 48 of 50 states and about 40.05% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 304 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $46,710 you keep $39,711, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $43,712 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $53,200, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming's $46,710 median for editors places it 48 of 50 states, about 40.05% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Editors ranks 304 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for editors on $46,710 is $39,711. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $43,712 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 $53,200 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Editors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,590 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,920 |
| This salary | $46,710 |
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 | $39,711 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,711 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,846 |
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 | $46,710 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,442 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,710 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $29,590 and the ninetieth is $82,920 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $39,711 take-home in Wyoming comes from $46,710. 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 304 of 433.
- Two cautions on $43,712, the adjusted value of that $46,710 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 304 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $46,710 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $29,590 to $82,920. 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 $39,711, from $46,710, 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 304 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 48 of 50 for it.
- This $43,712 adjusted figure, worked from $46,710, 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 304 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 304 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 $53,200, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $29,590, the highest tenth $82,920, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Wyoming sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $43,712 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $39,711 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $53,200. 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 ($29,590) and the ninetieth ($82,920) 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 $43,712 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 $39,711 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.