Lawyers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,271
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$20,859
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,257
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
$100,130
Kept after tax
$79,271
Worth in national money
$87,257
State rank
49
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for lawyers is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $100,130. That is 49 of 51 states, and about 37.29% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Within Wyoming this is well-paid work. Of 433 occupations with published figures in the state, lawyers ranks 46 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $100,130 you keep $79,271, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $87,257 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $125,050, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For lawyers, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $100,130, ranking 49 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 37.29%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Ranked against every occupation Wyoming publishes a median for, lawyers sits 46 of 433 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for lawyers on $100,130 is $79,271. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $87,257 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 $125,050 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Lawyers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $61,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $100,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $233,950 |
| This salary | $100,130 |
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 | $79,271 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,271 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,681 |
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 | $100,130 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,848 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Wyoming earn less than $100,130. The published range is $61,170 up to $233,950, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $79,271, worked from $100,130. 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 46 of 433.
- Two cautions on $87,257, the adjusted value of that $100,130 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 46 of 433 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for lawyers in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $61,170 to $233,950. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Wyoming take-home of $79,271, on $100,130 for work ranking 46 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 46 of 433 in the state.
- This $87,257 adjusted figure, worked from $100,130, 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 46 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 46 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 $125,050, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $61,170 at the bottom tenth to $233,950 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $87,257 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $79,271 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 $125,050. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($61,170) and the ninetieth ($233,950) 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 $87,257 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 $79,271 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.