Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,302
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$6,898
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,261
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
$46,200
Kept after tax
$39,302
Worth in national money
$43,261
State rank
40
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $46,200. That is 40 of 48 states, and about 5.94% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 311 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 $46,200 the take-home is $39,302; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $43,261 would nationally. The average comes to $47,620, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $46,200, ranking 40 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 5.94%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall ranks 311 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 insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall in Wyoming, on $46,200, is $39,302 — equivalent to $43,261 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 $47,620 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,830 |
| This salary | $46,200 |
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 | $39,302 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,302 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,817 |
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 | $46,200 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,406 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,200 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,400 and the ninetieth is $56,830 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $39,302 take-home in Wyoming comes from $46,200. 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 311 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $43,261, the adjusted value of that $46,200 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 311 of 433 in the state.
- The Wyoming median of $46,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,400 to $56,830. 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 $39,302, from $46,200, 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 311 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $43,261 — the adjusted value of that $46,200 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 311 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 $47,620, 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 $36,400 and the top tenth $56,830, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $43,261.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $39,302 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 48 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 $47,620. 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 ($36,400 to $56,830) 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 $43,261 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 $39,302 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.