Natural Sciences Managers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$85,723
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$23,577
21.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$94,358
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
$109,300
Kept after tax
$85,723
Worth in national money
$94,358
State rank
46
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for natural sciences managers is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $109,300. That is 46 of 48 states, and about 34.64% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 433 occupations Wyoming reports, natural sciences managers comes in at 32 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $109,300 the take-home is $85,723; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $94,358 would nationally. The average comes to $113,810, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For natural sciences managers, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $109,300, ranking 46 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 34.64%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Natural sciences managers ranks 32 of 433 occupations by median in Wyoming, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for natural sciences managers in Wyoming, on $109,300, is $85,723 — equivalent to $94,358 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 $113,810 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Natural Sciences Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $97,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $109,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $134,040 |
| This salary | $109,300 |
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 | $85,723 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $85,723 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,144 |
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 | $109,300 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,486 |
| 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 $109,300. The published range is $97,470 up to $134,040, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $85,723 take-home in Wyoming comes from $109,300. 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 32 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $94,358, the adjusted value of that $109,300 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 32 of 433 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for natural sciences managers in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $97,470 to $134,040. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $85,723, from $109,300, 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 32 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $94,358 — the adjusted value of that $109,300 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 32 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 $113,810, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $97,470 at the bottom tenth to $134,040 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $94,358.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $85,723 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. 48 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 $113,810. 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 ($97,470 to $134,040) 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 $94,358 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 $85,723 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.