Paralegals and Legal Assistants in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,945
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$7,545
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,171
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
$49,490
Kept after tax
$41,945
Worth in national money
$46,171
State rank
48
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays this job a middle wage of $49,490, 48 of 51 states and about 21.31% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 270 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $49,490 you keep $41,945, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $46,171 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $52,540, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming's $49,490 median for paralegals and legal assistants places it 48 of 51 states, about 21.31% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 270 of 433 in Wyoming places paralegals and legal assistants 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for paralegals and legal assistants on $49,490 is $41,945. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $46,171 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 $52,540 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Paralegals and Legal Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,890 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $64,780 |
| This salary | $49,490 |
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 | $41,945 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,945 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,006 |
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 | $49,490 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,636 |
| 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 paralegals and legal assistants in Wyoming earn under $49,490 and half over. The published range runs $35,890 at the tenth percentile to $64,780 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $41,945, from $49,490, 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 270 of 433 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $46,171, the adjusted value of that $49,490 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 270 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for paralegals and legal assistants in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,890 to $64,780; 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.
- Take-home for Wyoming is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $41,945 from $49,490. 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 270 of 433 locally.
- This $46,171 adjusted figure, worked from $49,490, 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 270 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 270 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 $52,540 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $35,890 at the bottom tenth to $64,780 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 $46,171.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $41,945 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $52,540. 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 ($35,890 to $64,780) 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 $46,171 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 $41,945 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.