Protective Service Workers, All Other in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,585
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,745
14.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,069
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
$40,330
Kept after tax
$34,585
Worth in national money
$38,069
State rank
41
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 $40,330, 41 of 51 states and about 5.2% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Wyoming this is lower-paid work. Of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 347. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $40,330 the take-home is $34,585; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $38,069 would nationally. The average comes to $46,550, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming's $40,330 median for protective service workers, all other places it 41 of 51 states, about 5.2% 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.
- Against every occupation Wyoming reports, protective service workers, all other ranks 347 of 433, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Post-tax income for protective service workers, all other in Wyoming, on $40,330, is $34,585 — equivalent to $38,069 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 $46,550 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Protective Service Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,060 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,680 |
| This salary | $40,330 |
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 | $34,585 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,585 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,479 |
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 | $40,330 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,998 |
| 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 protective service workers, all other in Wyoming earn under $40,330 and half over. The published range runs $33,060 at the tenth percentile to $68,680 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $34,585, from $40,330, 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 347 of 433 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $38,069, the adjusted value of that $40,330 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 347 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for protective service workers, all other in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,060 to $68,680; 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 $34,585 from $40,330. 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 347 of 433 locally.
- This $38,069 adjusted figure, worked from $40,330, 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 347 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 347 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 $46,550 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $33,060, the highest tenth $68,680, 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 $38,069 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $34,585 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 $46,550. 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 ($33,060) and the ninetieth ($68,680) 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 $38,069 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 $34,585 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.