Power Plant Operators in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,617
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$20,583
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$86,537
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
$99,200
Kept after tax
$78,617
Worth in national money
$86,537
State rank
30
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wyoming pays power plant operators around $99,200 at the midpoint, 30 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Wyoming. It ranks 51 out of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $99,200 you keep $78,617, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $86,537 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $102,530, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For power plant operators the Wyoming median is $99,200, ranking 30 of 49 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, power plant operators ranks 51 of 433 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for power plant operators on $99,200 is $78,617. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $86,537 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 $102,530 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Power Plant Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $82,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $119,380 |
| This salary | $99,200 |
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 | $78,617 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,617 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,634 |
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 | $99,200 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,783 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $99,200 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $82,650 and the ninetieth is $119,380 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $78,617, from $99,200, 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 51 of 433 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $86,537, the adjusted value of that $99,200 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 51 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $99,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $82,650 to $119,380. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Wyoming is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $78,617 from $99,200. 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 51 of 433 locally.
- This $86,537 adjusted figure, worked from $99,200, 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 51 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 51 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 $102,530 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 $82,650 and the top tenth $119,380, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $86,537 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $78,617 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $102,530. 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 ($82,650 to $119,380) 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 $86,537 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 $78,617 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.