Physical Therapist Assistants in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,242
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$10,308
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,606
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
$63,550
Kept after tax
$53,242
Worth in national money
$58,606
State rank
34
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming sits in the middle of the pack for physical therapist assistants. The median is $63,550, ranking 34 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Physical therapist assistants ranks 162 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $63,550 the take-home is $53,242; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $58,606 would nationally. The average comes to $65,820, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming occupies the middle band for physical therapist assistants: a median of $63,550, ranking 34 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 162 of 433 in Wyoming places physical therapist 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.
- Post-tax income for physical therapist assistants in Wyoming, on $63,550, is $53,242 — equivalent to $58,606 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 $65,820 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Physical Therapist Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,320 |
| This salary | $63,550 |
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 | $53,242 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,242 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,816 |
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 | $63,550 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,851 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,550 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $48,180 and the ninetieth is $79,320 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $53,242 take-home in Wyoming comes from $63,550. 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 162 of 433.
- Two cautions on $58,606, the adjusted value of that $63,550 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 162 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $63,550 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $48,180 to $79,320. 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 $53,242, from $63,550, 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 162 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 51 for it.
- This $58,606 adjusted figure, worked from $63,550, 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 162 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 162 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 $65,820 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 $48,180 and the top tenth $79,320, 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 $58,606.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $53,242 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 $65,820. 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 ($48,180 to $79,320) 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 $58,606 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 $53,242 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.