Printing Press Operators in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,931
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,829
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,450
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
$40,760
Kept after tax
$34,931
Worth in national money
$38,450
State rank
43
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for printing press operators is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $40,760. That is 43 of 51 states, and about 10.97% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, printing press operators lands at 345. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $40,760 you keep $34,931 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,450 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $41,890, since top earners drag the number up.
- For printing press operators, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $40,760, ranking 43 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 10.97%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Wyoming, this work ranks 345 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.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $34,931 after the full tax stack, from $40,760. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,450 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $41,890 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Printing Press Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,570 |
| This salary | $40,760 |
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 | $34,931 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,931 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,503 |
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 | $40,760 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,028 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $40,760 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $27,750 and the ninetieth is $60,570 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $34,931 take-home in Wyoming comes from $40,760. 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 345 of 433.
- Two cautions on $38,450, the adjusted value of that $40,760 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 345 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $40,760 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $27,750 to $60,570. 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 $34,931, from $40,760, 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 345 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 43 of 51 for it.
- This $38,450 adjusted figure, worked from $40,760, 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 345 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 345 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $27,750 and the top tenth $60,570 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $38,450 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $34,931 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?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($27,750) and the ninetieth ($60,570) 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 $38,450 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 $34,931 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.