Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,448
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$10,602
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,933
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
$65,050
Kept after tax
$54,448
Worth in national money
$59,933
State rank
46
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays this job a middle wage of $65,050, 46 of 50 states and about 19.03% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 433 occupations Wyoming reports figures for, this is number 152.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $65,050 the take-home is $54,448; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $59,933 would nationally. The average comes to $73,400, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming's $65,050 median for psychology teachers, postsecondary places it 46 of 50 states, about 19.03% 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.
- In Wyoming's occupational distribution, psychology teachers, postsecondary sits at 152 of 433 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Post-tax income for psychology teachers, postsecondary in Wyoming, on $65,050, is $54,448 — equivalent to $59,933 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 $73,400 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,960 |
| This salary | $65,050 |
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 | $54,448 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,448 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,902 |
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 | $65,050 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,184 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $65,050 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,570 and the ninetieth is $103,960 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $54,448, worked from $65,050. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 152 of 433.
- Two cautions on $59,933, the adjusted value of that $65,050 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 152 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $65,050 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,570 to $103,960. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Wyoming take-home of $54,448, on $65,050 for work ranking 152 of 433 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 152 of 433 in the state.
- This $59,933 adjusted figure, worked from $65,050, 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 152 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 152 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 $73,400 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $49,570 at the bottom tenth to $103,960 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $59,933 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $54,448 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 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 $73,400. 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 ($49,570) and the ninetieth ($103,960) 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 $59,933 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 $54,448 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.