Funeral Attendants in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,655
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$4,295
13.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,542
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
$32,950
Kept after tax
$28,655
Worth in national money
$31,542
State rank
34
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for funeral attendants is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $32,950. That is 34 of 48 states, and about 7.65% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, funeral attendants lands at 407. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $32,950 you keep $28,655, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $31,542 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $32,570, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For funeral attendants, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $32,950, ranking 34 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 7.65%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Wyoming, this work ranks 407 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for funeral attendants on $32,950 is $28,655. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $31,542 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $32,570 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Funeral Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $25,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $32,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $43,480 |
| This salary | $32,950 |
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 | $28,655 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $28,655 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,054 |
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 | $32,950 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,484 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Wyoming earn less than $32,950. The published range is $25,700 up to $43,480, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $28,655, worked from $32,950. 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 407 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $31,542 uses one figure for the whole of Wyoming. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 433 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 407.
- Reported values are medians; for funeral attendants in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $25,700 to $43,480. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Wyoming take-home of $28,655, on $32,950 for work ranking 407 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 407 of 433 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $31,542, worked from $32,950, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Wyoming address, on work sitting at 407 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $25,700 and the top tenth $43,480, 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 $31,542 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $28,655 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. 48 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 ($25,700 to $43,480) 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 $31,542 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 $28,655 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.