Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,014
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$10,496
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,455
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
$64,510
Kept after tax
$54,014
Worth in national money
$59,455
State rank
15
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Wyoming pays this job a middle wage of $64,510, ranking 15 of 50 states and sitting about 3.58% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 153 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $64,510 you keep $54,014, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $59,455 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $67,390, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming's median for life, physical, and social science technicians, all other is $64,510, about 3.58% above the national figure and 15 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 153 of 433 in Wyoming places life, physical, and social science technicians, all other 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for life, physical, and social science technicians, all other on $64,510 is $54,014. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $59,455 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 $67,390 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,050 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,510 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,540 |
| This salary | $64,510 |
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 | $54,014 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,014 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,871 |
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 | $64,510 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,064 |
| 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 life, physical, and social science technicians, all other in Wyoming earn under $64,510 and half over. The published range runs $39,050 at the tenth percentile to $99,540 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $54,014 take-home in Wyoming comes from $64,510. 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 153 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $59,455, the adjusted value of that $64,510 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 153 of 433 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for life, physical, and social science technicians, all other in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,050 to $99,540; 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 $54,014, from $64,510, 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 153 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $59,455 — the adjusted value of that $64,510 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 153 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 $67,390, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $39,050 and the top tenth $99,540 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $59,455.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $54,014 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $67,390. 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 ($39,050) and the ninetieth ($99,540) 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 $59,455 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 $54,014 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.