Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,942
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,098
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,159
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
$37,040
Kept after tax
$31,942
Worth in national money
$35,159
State rank
32
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wyoming pays this job around $37,040 at the midpoint, 32 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, this job lands at 379. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $37,040 you keep $31,942, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $35,159 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $37,670, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers the Wyoming median is $37,040, ranking 32 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Wyoming, this work ranks 379 of 433 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers on $37,040 is $31,942. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $35,159 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 $37,670 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,030 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,790 |
| This salary | $37,040 |
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 | $31,942 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,942 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,289 |
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 | $37,040 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,769 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,040 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $30,030 and the ninetieth is $45,790 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $31,942 take-home in Wyoming comes from $37,040. 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 379 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $35,159, the adjusted value of that $37,040 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 379 of 433 in the state.
- The Wyoming median of $37,040 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $30,030 to $45,790. 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 $31,942, from $37,040, 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 379 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $35,159 — the adjusted value of that $37,040 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 379 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $30,030 at the bottom tenth to $45,790 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $35,159 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $31,942 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($30,030 to $45,790) 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 $35,159 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 $31,942 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.