Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,131
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$8,569
15.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,779
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
$54,700
Kept after tax
$46,131
Worth in national money
$50,779
State rank
46
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $54,700, ranking 46 of 51 states — about 10.34% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 244 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $54,700 you keep $46,131, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $50,779 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $55,760, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming ranks 46 of 51 for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers, with a median of $54,700 — about 10.34% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers ranks 244 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers on $54,700 is $46,131. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $50,779 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 $55,760 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $54,700 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,050 |
| This salary | $54,700 |
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 | $46,131 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,131 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,306 |
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 | $54,700 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,998 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $54,700 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,840 and the ninetieth is $79,050 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $46,131 take-home in Wyoming comes from $54,700. 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 244 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $50,779 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 244.
- The Wyoming median of $54,700 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,840 to $79,050. 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 $46,131, from $54,700, 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 244 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $50,779, worked from $54,700, 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 244 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,840, the highest tenth $79,050, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $50,779.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $46,131 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,840) and the ninetieth ($79,050) 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 $50,779 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 $46,131 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.