History Teachers, Postsecondary in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,874
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$13,526
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$68,107
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
$75,400
Kept after tax
$61,874
Worth in national money
$68,107
State rank
32
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $75,400. That is 32 of 45 states, and about 10.05% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 117 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $75,400 you keep $61,874 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $68,107 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $70,330.
- For history teachers, postsecondary, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $75,400, ranking 32 of 45 and trailing the national median by about 10.05%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 117 of 433 in Wyoming places history teachers, postsecondary in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $61,874 after the full tax stack, from $75,400. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $68,107 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $70,330 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: History Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,650 |
| This salary | $75,400 |
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 | $61,874 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,874 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,434 |
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 | $75,400 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,125 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $75,400 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,230 and the ninetieth is $80,650 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $61,874 take-home in Wyoming comes from $75,400. 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 117 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $68,107, the adjusted value of that $75,400 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 117 of 433 in the state.
- The Wyoming median of $75,400 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,230 to $80,650. 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 $61,874, from $75,400, 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 117 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 45 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $68,107 — the adjusted value of that $75,400 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 117 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $70,330, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $47,230 and the top tenth $80,650, 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 $68,107 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $61,874 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $70,330. 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 ($47,230 to $80,650) 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 $68,107 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 $61,874 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.