Fence Erectors in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,119
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,631
14.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,556
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
$39,750
Kept after tax
$34,119
Worth in national money
$37,556
State rank
39
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays fence erectors a middle wage of $39,750, 39 of 45 states and about 17.15% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Wyoming this is lower-paid work. Of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, fence erectors ranks 353. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $39,750 the take-home is $34,119; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $37,556 would nationally. The average comes to $42,860, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming's $39,750 median for fence erectors places it 39 of 45 states, about 17.15% 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.
- Against every occupation Wyoming reports, fence erectors ranks 353 of 433, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Post-tax income for fence erectors in Wyoming, on $39,750, is $34,119 — equivalent to $37,556 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 $42,860 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Fence Erectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,060 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,810 |
| This salary | $39,750 |
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 | $34,119 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,119 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,445 |
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 | $39,750 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,957 |
| 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 fence erectors in Wyoming earn under $39,750 and half over. The published range runs $34,060 at the tenth percentile to $58,810 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $34,119, from $39,750, 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 353 of 433 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $37,556, the adjusted value of that $39,750 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 353 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for fence erectors in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,060 to $58,810; 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 $34,119 from $39,750. 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 353 of 433 locally.
- This $37,556 adjusted figure, worked from $39,750, 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 353 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 353 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 $42,860 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,060 at the tenth percentile, $58,810 at the ninetieth.
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 $37,556 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $34,119 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. 45 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 $42,860. 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 ($34,060 to $58,810) 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 $37,556 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 $34,119 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.