Firefighters in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,855
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$9,235
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,777
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
$58,090
Kept after tax
$48,855
Worth in national money
$53,777
State rank
24
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Wyoming is 24 of 50 states for firefighters, with a middle wage of $58,090. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 224 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $58,090 the take-home is $48,855; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $53,777 would nationally. The average lands at $56,800, below the middle of the range.
- Wyoming ranks 24 of 50 for firefighters at $58,090. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Firefighters ranks 224 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.
- Post-tax income for firefighters in Wyoming, on $58,090, is $48,855 — equivalent to $53,777 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 $56,800 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Firefighters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,090 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,760 |
| This salary | $58,090 |
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 | $48,855 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,855 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,501 |
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 | $58,090 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,235 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,090 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,550 and the ninetieth is $78,760 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $48,855, from $58,090, 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 224 of 433 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $53,777, the adjusted value of that $58,090 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 224 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $58,090 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,550 to $78,760. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Wyoming is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $48,855 from $58,090. 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 224 of 433 locally.
- This $53,777 adjusted figure, worked from $58,090, 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 224 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 224 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $39,550 at the tenth percentile, $78,760 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $53,777.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $48,855 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($39,550 to $78,760) 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 $53,777 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 $48,855 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.