Food Processing Workers, All Other in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,522
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$6,218
14.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,201
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
$42,740
Kept after tax
$36,522
Worth in national money
$40,201
State rank
13
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for food processing workers, all other is strong here. Wyoming's middle earner gets $42,740, putting the state 13 of 46 — about 7.71% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, food processing workers, all other lands at 340. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $42,740 you keep $36,522 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $40,201 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $43,640, since top earners drag the number up.
- For food processing workers, all other, Wyoming sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $42,740, ranking 13 of 46 and running about 7.71% 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.
- Within Wyoming, this work ranks 340 of 433 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $36,522 after the full tax stack, from $42,740. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $40,201 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $43,640 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Food Processing Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,890 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,480 |
| This salary | $42,740 |
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 | $36,522 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,522 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,617 |
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 | $42,740 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,166 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,740 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,890 and the ninetieth is $53,480 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $36,522 take-home in Wyoming comes from $42,740. 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 340 of 433.
- Two cautions on $40,201, the adjusted value of that $42,740 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 340 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $42,740 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,890 to $53,480. 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 $36,522, from $42,740, 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 340 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 46 for it.
- This $40,201 adjusted figure, worked from $42,740, 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 340 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 340 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $38,890 and the top tenth $53,480, 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 $40,201 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $36,522 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 46 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($38,890 to $53,480) 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 $40,201 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 $36,522 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.