Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,978
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,352
14.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,300
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
$38,330
Kept after tax
$32,978
Worth in national money
$36,300
State rank
38
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays this job a middle wage of $38,330, 38 of 51 states and about 4.75% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Wyoming this is lower-paid work. Of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 367. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $38,330 you keep $32,978 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $36,300 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $41,360, since top earners drag the number up.
- Wyoming's $38,330 median for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand places it 38 of 51 states, about 4.75% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Wyoming reports, laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ranks 367 of 433, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $32,978 after the full tax stack, from $38,330. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $36,300 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $41,360 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,270 |
| This salary | $38,330 |
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 | $32,978 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,978 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,363 |
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 | $38,330 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,858 |
| 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 laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand in Wyoming earn under $38,330 and half over. The published range runs $31,130 at the tenth percentile to $53,270 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $32,978 take-home in Wyoming comes from $38,330. 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 367 of 433.
- Two cautions on $36,300, the adjusted value of that $38,330 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wyoming. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 367 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,130 to $53,270; 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 $32,978, from $38,330, 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 367 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 38 of 51 for it.
- This $36,300 adjusted figure, worked from $38,330, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 367 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 367 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 $41,360, 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?
The range here is narrow. From $31,130 at the bottom tenth to $53,270 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Wyoming sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $36,300 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $32,978 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $41,360. 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 ($31,130 to $53,270) 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 $36,300 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 $32,978 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.