Home Health and Personal Care Aides in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,848
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$4,342
13.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,754
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
$33,190
Kept after tax
$28,848
Worth in national money
$31,754
State rank
35
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming is among the lower-paying states for home health and personal care aides. The middle earner takes $33,190, ranking 35 of 51 states — about 7.29% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Measured against other jobs in Wyoming, this one sits low: 405 of 433 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $33,190 you keep $28,848 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $31,754 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $35,810, since top earners drag the number up.
- Wyoming ranks 35 of 51 for home health and personal care aides, with a median of $33,190 — about 7.29% 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.
- Home health and personal care aides occupies position 405 of 433 in Wyoming's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $28,848 after the full tax stack, from $33,190. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $31,754 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $35,810 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Home Health and Personal Care Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,190 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,000 |
| This salary | $33,190 |
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 | $28,848 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $28,848 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,068 |
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 | $33,190 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,500 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $33,190 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $27,700 and the ninetieth is $47,000 — 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 $28,848, worked from $33,190. 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 405 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $31,754 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 405.
- The Wyoming median of $33,190 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $27,700 to $47,000. 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 $28,848, on $33,190 for work ranking 405 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 405 of 433 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $31,754, worked from $33,190, 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 405 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $35,810, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $27,700 at the tenth percentile, $47,000 at the ninetieth.
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 $31,754.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $28,848 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $35,810. 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 ($27,700 to $47,000) 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 $31,754 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 $28,848 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.