Mechanical Drafters in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,250
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$9,820
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,413
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
$61,070
Kept after tax
$51,250
Worth in national money
$56,413
State rank
39
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming is among the lower-paying states for mechanical drafters. The middle earner takes $61,070, ranking 39 of 47 states — about 14.65% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Mechanical drafters ranks 198 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $61,070 the take-home is $51,250; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $56,413 would nationally. The average comes to $65,450, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming ranks 39 of 47 for mechanical drafters, with a median of $61,070 — about 14.65% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Position 198 of 433 in Wyoming places mechanical drafters 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.
- Post-tax income for mechanical drafters in Wyoming, on $61,070, is $51,250 — equivalent to $56,413 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 $65,450 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Mechanical Drafters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,850 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,570 |
| This salary | $61,070 |
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 | $51,250 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,250 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,673 |
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 | $61,070 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,442 |
| 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 mechanical drafters in Wyoming earn under $61,070 and half over. The published range runs $49,850 at the tenth percentile to $92,570 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $51,250 take-home in Wyoming comes from $61,070. 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 198 of 433.
- Two cautions on $56,413, the adjusted value of that $61,070 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 198 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for mechanical drafters in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $49,850 to $92,570; 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 $51,250, from $61,070, 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 198 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 47 for it.
- This $56,413 adjusted figure, worked from $61,070, 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 198 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 198 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $65,450 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $49,850 and the top tenth $92,570, 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 $56,413 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,250 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $65,450. 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 ($49,850 to $92,570) 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 $56,413 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 $51,250 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.