Materials Engineers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$86,897
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$24,073
21.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$95,651
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
$110,970
Kept after tax
$86,897
Worth in national money
$95,651
State rank
18
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Wyoming is 18 of 45 states for materials engineers, with a middle wage of $110,970. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Wyoming this is well-paid work. Of 433 occupations with published figures in the state, materials engineers ranks 30 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $110,970 the take-home is $86,897; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $95,651 would nationally. The average lands at $109,870, below the middle of the range.
- Wyoming ranks 18 of 45 for materials engineers at $110,970. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Ranked against every occupation Wyoming publishes a median for, materials engineers sits 30 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.
- Post-tax income for materials engineers in Wyoming, on $110,970, is $86,897 — equivalent to $95,651 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 $109,870 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Materials Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,250 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $110,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $120,830 |
| This salary | $110,970 |
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 | $86,897 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $86,897 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,228 |
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 | $110,970 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,602 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $110,970 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $65,250 and the ninetieth is $120,830 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $86,897, from $110,970, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 30 of 433 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $95,651, the adjusted value of that $110,970 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 30 of 433 in the state.
- The Wyoming median of $110,970 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $65,250 to $120,830. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Wyoming is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $86,897 from $110,970. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 30 of 433 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $95,651 — the adjusted value of that $110,970 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 30 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $65,250 and the top tenth $120,830, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $95,651 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $86,897 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($65,250 to $120,830) 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 $95,651 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 $86,897 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.