Food Service Managers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,487
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$10,123
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,775
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
$62,610
Kept after tax
$52,487
Worth in national money
$57,775
State rank
41
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for food service managers is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $62,610. That is 41 of 51 states, and about 9.77% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 179 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 $62,610 the take-home is $52,487; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $57,775 would nationally. The average comes to $65,300, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For food service managers, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $62,610, ranking 41 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 9.77%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Food service managers ranks 179 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 food service managers in Wyoming, on $62,610, is $52,487 — equivalent to $57,775 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 $65,300 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Food Service Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,990 |
| This salary | $62,610 |
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 | $52,487 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,487 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,762 |
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 | $62,610 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,643 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,610 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,090 and the ninetieth is $95,990 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $52,487, worked from $62,610. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 179 of 433.
- Two cautions on $57,775, the adjusted value of that $62,610 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 179 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $62,610 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,090 to $95,990. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Wyoming take-home of $52,487, on $62,610 for work ranking 179 of 433 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 179 of 433 in the state.
- This $57,775 adjusted figure, worked from $62,610, 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 179 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 179 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 $65,300 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $42,090, the highest tenth $95,990, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $57,775 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $52,487 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 $65,300. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($42,090) and the ninetieth ($95,990) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $57,775 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 $52,487 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.