Orderlies in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,239
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,171
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,487
Wyoming costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the top tenth 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
$37,410
Kept after tax
$32,239
Worth in national money
$35,487
State rank
28
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wyoming pays orderlies around $37,410 at the midpoint, 28 of 47 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, orderlies lands at 378. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $37,410 the take-home is $32,239; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $35,487 would nationally. The average lands at $35,510, below the middle of the range.
- For orderlies the Wyoming median is $37,410, ranking 28 of 47 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 378 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.
- Post-tax income for orderlies in Wyoming, on $37,410, is $32,239 — equivalent to $35,487 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 $35,510 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Orderlies
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $37,410 |
| This salary | $37,410 |
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 | $32,239 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,239 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,311 |
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 | $37,410 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,794 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,410 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,330 and the ninetieth is $37,410 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $32,239, worked from $37,410. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 378 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $35,487 uses one figure for the whole of Wyoming. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 433 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 378.
- The Wyoming median of $37,410 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,330 to $37,410. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Wyoming take-home of $32,239, on $37,410 for work ranking 378 of 433 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 378 of 433 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $35,487, worked from $37,410, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Wyoming address, on work sitting at 378 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $35,510, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $31,330 and the top tenth $37,410, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $35,487.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $32,239 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $35,510. 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 ($31,330 to $37,410) 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 $35,487 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 $32,239 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.