School Bus Monitors in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,757
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,053
13.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,956
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
$36,810
Kept after tax
$31,757
Worth in national money
$34,956
State rank
14
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for school bus monitors is strong here. Wyoming's middle earner gets $36,810, putting the state 14 of 50 — about 4.87% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, school bus monitors lands at 385. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $36,810 you keep $31,757, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $34,956 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $37,740, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For school bus monitors, Wyoming sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $36,810, ranking 14 of 50 and running about 4.87% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Wyoming, this work ranks 385 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for school bus monitors on $36,810 is $31,757. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $34,956 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 $37,740 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: School Bus Monitors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,060 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,810 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,390 |
| This salary | $36,810 |
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 | $31,757 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,757 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,276 |
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 | $36,810 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,753 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $36,810 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,060 and the ninetieth is $46,390 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $31,757 take-home in Wyoming comes from $36,810. 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 385 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $34,956 uses one figure for the whole of Wyoming. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 433 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 385.
- The Wyoming median of $36,810 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,060 to $46,390. 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 $31,757, from $36,810, 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 385 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $34,956, worked from $36,810, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Wyoming address, on work sitting at 385 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $31,060 at the bottom tenth to $46,390 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Wyoming is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $34,956 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $31,757 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,060 to $46,390) 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 $34,956 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 $31,757 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.