Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,924
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$13,126
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,062
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
$74,050
Kept after tax
$60,924
Worth in national money
$67,062
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $74,050, ranking 37 of 51 states — about 9.94% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 433 occupations Wyoming reports figures for, this is number 123.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $74,050 you keep $60,924 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $67,062 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $76,430, since top earners drag the number up.
- Wyoming ranks 37 of 51 for environmental scientists and specialists, including health, with a median of $74,050 — about 9.94% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- In Wyoming's occupational distribution, environmental scientists and specialists, including health sits at 123 of 433 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $60,924 after the full tax stack, from $74,050. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $67,062 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $76,430 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,670 |
| This salary | $74,050 |
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 | $60,924 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,924 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,366 |
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 | $74,050 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,031 |
| 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 environmental scientists and specialists, including health in Wyoming earn under $74,050 and half over. The published range runs $58,510 at the tenth percentile to $100,670 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $60,924 take-home in Wyoming comes from $74,050. 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 123 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $67,062, the adjusted value of that $74,050 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 123 of 433 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for environmental scientists and specialists, including health in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $58,510 to $100,670; 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.
- Retained pay of $60,924, from $74,050, 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 123 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $67,062 — the adjusted value of that $74,050 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 123 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 $76,430, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $58,510 and the top tenth $100,670, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $67,062 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $60,924 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $76,430. 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 ($58,510 to $100,670) 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 $67,062 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 $60,924 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.