Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$71,294
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$17,496
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$78,476
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
$88,790
Kept after tax
$71,294
Worth in national money
$78,476
State rank
10
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Wyoming's middle earner gets $88,790, putting the state 10 of 47 — about 11.66% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 433 occupations Wyoming reports, this job comes in at 71 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $88,790 you keep $71,294 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $78,476 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $92,620, since top earners drag the number up.
- For entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling, Wyoming sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $88,790, ranking 10 of 47 and running about 11.66% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling ranks 71 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.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $71,294 after the full tax stack, from $88,790. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $78,476 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $92,620 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $66,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $88,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $126,990 |
| This salary | $88,790 |
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 | $71,294 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $71,294 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,110 |
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 | $88,790 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,058 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling in Wyoming earn under $88,790 and half over. The published range runs $66,010 at the tenth percentile to $126,990 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $71,294, from $88,790, 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 71 of 433 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $78,476 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 71.
- Figures are distribution medians for entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $66,010 to $126,990; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Wyoming is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $71,294 from $88,790. 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 71 of 433 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $78,476, worked from $88,790, 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 71 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 $92,620 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $66,010 at the bottom tenth to $126,990 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $78,476 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $71,294 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 47 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 $92,620. 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 ($66,010 to $126,990) 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 $78,476 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 $71,294 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.