Security Guards in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,677
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$5,523
14.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,070
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
$39,200
Kept after tax
$33,677
Worth in national money
$37,070
State rank
21
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Wyoming is 21 of 51 states for security guards, with a middle wage of $39,200. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Wyoming this is lower-paid work. Of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, security guards ranks 359. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $39,200 the take-home is $33,677; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $37,070 would nationally. The average comes to $42,660, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming ranks 21 of 51 for security guards at $39,200. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Wyoming reports, security guards ranks 359 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 security guards in Wyoming, on $39,200, is $33,677 — equivalent to $37,070 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 $42,660 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Security Guards
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $67,680 |
| This salary | $39,200 |
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 | $33,677 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,677 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,414 |
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 | $39,200 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,919 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $39,200 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $30,350 and the ninetieth is $67,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $33,677 take-home in Wyoming comes from $39,200. 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 359 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $37,070 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 359.
- The Wyoming median of $39,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $30,350 to $67,680. 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 $33,677, from $39,200, 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 359 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $37,070, worked from $39,200, 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 359 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 $42,660 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 $30,350, the highest tenth $67,680, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $37,070.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $33,677 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 $42,660. 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 ($30,350) and the ninetieth ($67,680) 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 $37,070 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 $33,677 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.