Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, & Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, & Tenders, Metal & Plastic in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,784
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$7,016
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,792
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
$46,800
Kept after tax
$39,784
Worth in national money
$43,792
State rank
18
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $46,800, ranking 18 of 48 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 302 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 $46,800 the take-home is $39,784; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $43,792 would nationally. The average comes to $49,190, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming occupies the middle band for grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic: a median of $46,800, ranking 18 of 48. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic ranks 302 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 grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic in Wyoming, on $46,800, is $39,784 — equivalent to $43,792 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 $49,190 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, & Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, & Tenders, Metal & Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $55,710 |
| This salary | $46,800 |
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 | $39,784 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,784 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,851 |
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 | $46,800 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,448 |
| 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 grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic in Wyoming earn under $46,800 and half over. The published range runs $44,830 at the tenth percentile to $55,710 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,784 take-home in Wyoming comes from $46,800. 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 302 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $43,792 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 302.
- Figures are distribution medians for grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $44,830 to $55,710; 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.
- Retained pay of $39,784, from $46,800, 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 302 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 18 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $43,792, worked from $46,800, 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 302 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 $49,190 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $44,830 and the top tenth $55,710, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Wyoming is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $43,792 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $39,784 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.
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 $49,190. 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 ($44,830 to $55,710) 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 $43,792 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 $39,784 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.