Postsecondary Teachers, All Other in Wyoming

Books, colored pencils and a globe in a bright classroom.

May 2025 wages · tax year 2026

You keep

$39,711

after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax

Tax takes

$6,999

15.0% of the whole

Worth, in national money

$43,712

Wyoming costs less than average

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

$46,710

Kept after tax

$39,711

Worth in national money

$43,712

State rank

48

of 48 states

What this pays, and what it is worth

  • Wyoming is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $46,710, ranking 48 of 48 states — about 39.84% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
  • Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 303 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
  • Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $46,710 the take-home is $39,711; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $43,712 would nationally. The average comes to $60,520, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
  • Wyoming ranks 48 of 48 for postsecondary teachers, all other, with a median of $46,710 — about 39.84% 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.
  • Postsecondary teachers, all other ranks 303 of 433 occupations in Wyoming by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
  • Post-tax income for postsecondary teachers, all other in Wyoming, on $46,710, is $39,711 — equivalent to $43,712 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 $60,520 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.

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Pay band: Postsecondary Teachers, All Other

The state median for this job

50thpercentile, roughly
Lowest tenth earn under$46,330
Half earn under$46,710
Top tenth earn over$98,150
This salary$46,710

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

Compare with
$0take-home per year in Texas
Take-home in Wyoming$39,711
Take-home in Texas$39,711
Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity−$2,846

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

Moving to
$0$50,152
$50,152in Texas, for the same life
To match take-home only$46,710
Raise you would need+$3,442
Prices in Texas97 vs 91

State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.

Sources and assumptions
  • Treat $46,710 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,330 and the ninetieth is $98,150 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
  • That $39,711 take-home in Wyoming comes from $46,710. 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 303 of 433.
  • Two cautions on $43,712, the adjusted value of that $46,710 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 303 of 433 locally.
  • The Wyoming median of $46,710 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,330 to $98,150. 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 $39,711, from $46,710, 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 303 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 48 of 48 for it.
  • This $43,712 adjusted figure, worked from $46,710, 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 303 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 303 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 $60,520, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.

Why is the pay range for this job so wide?

One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $46,330, the highest tenth $98,150, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.

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 $43,712 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.

Is most of this wage taxed away?

Most of it arrives. $39,711 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?

Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 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 $60,520. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?

Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($46,330) and the ninetieth ($98,150) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.

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 $43,712 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 $39,711 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.