Registered Nurses in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,755
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$16,005
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$74,581
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
$83,760
Kept after tax
$67,755
Worth in national money
$74,581
State rank
35
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming is among the lower-paying states for registered nurses. The middle earner takes $83,760, ranking 35 of 51 states — about 14.14% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Within Wyoming this is well-paid work. Of 433 occupations with published figures in the state, registered nurses ranks 84 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $83,760 the take-home is $67,755; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $74,581 would nationally. The average comes to $88,600, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming ranks 35 of 51 for registered nurses, with a median of $83,760 — about 14.14% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Wyoming publishes a median for, registered nurses sits 84 of 433 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Post-tax income for registered nurses in Wyoming, on $83,760, is $67,755 — equivalent to $74,581 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 $88,600 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Registered Nurses
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,350 |
| This salary | $83,760 |
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 | $67,755 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,755 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,856 |
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 | $83,760 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,708 |
| 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 registered nurses in Wyoming earn under $83,760 and half over. The published range runs $65,770 at the tenth percentile to $107,350 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $67,755, worked from $83,760. 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 84 of 433.
- Two cautions on $74,581, the adjusted value of that $83,760 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 84 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for registered nurses in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $65,770 to $107,350; 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.
- The Wyoming take-home of $67,755, on $83,760 for work ranking 84 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 84 of 433 in the state.
- This $74,581 adjusted figure, worked from $83,760, 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 84 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 84 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 $88,600 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 $65,770 and the top tenth $107,350, 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 $74,581 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $67,755 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $88,600. 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 ($65,770 to $107,350) 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 $74,581 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 $67,755 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.