Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,229
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$9,571
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,289
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
$59,800
Kept after tax
$50,229
Worth in national money
$55,289
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Wyoming is 27 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $59,800. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 214 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $59,800 you keep $50,229 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $55,289 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $56,850.
- Wyoming ranks 27 of 51 for security and fire alarm systems installers at $59,800. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Security and fire alarm systems installers ranks 214 of 433 occupations in Wyoming by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $50,229 after the full tax stack, from $59,800. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $55,289 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $56,850 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,110 |
| This salary | $59,800 |
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 | $50,229 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,229 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,600 |
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 | $59,800 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,354 |
| 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 security and fire alarm systems installers in Wyoming earn under $59,800 and half over. The published range runs $39,880 at the tenth percentile to $80,110 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 $50,229, worked from $59,800. 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 214 of 433.
- Two cautions on $55,289, the adjusted value of that $59,800 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 214 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for security and fire alarm systems installers in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,880 to $80,110; 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 $50,229, on $59,800 for work ranking 214 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 214 of 433 in the state.
- This $55,289 adjusted figure, worked from $59,800, 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 214 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 214 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $56,850, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $39,880 at the bottom tenth to $80,110 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $55,289.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $50,229 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?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $56,850. 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 ($39,880 to $80,110) 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 $55,289 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 $50,229 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.