Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$85,441
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$23,459
21.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$94,048
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
$108,900
Kept after tax
$85,441
Worth in national money
$94,048
State rank
1
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Wyoming's middle earner gets $108,900, putting the state 1 of 50 — about 111.01% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Wyoming this is well-paid work. Of 433 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 33 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $108,900 the take-home is $85,441; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $94,048 would nationally. The average lands at $88,980, below the middle of the range.
- For separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders, Wyoming sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $108,900, ranking 1 of 50 and running about 111.01% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Wyoming publishes a median for, separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders sits 33 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 separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in Wyoming, on $108,900, is $85,441 — equivalent to $94,048 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 $88,980 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $108,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $117,600 |
| This salary | $108,900 |
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 | $85,441 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $85,441 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,123 |
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 | $108,900 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,458 |
| 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 separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in Wyoming earn under $108,900 and half over. The published range runs $46,000 at the tenth percentile to $117,600 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $85,441 take-home in Wyoming comes from $108,900. 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 33 of 433.
- One number stands for prices across all of Wyoming, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $94,048, the adjusted value of that $108,900 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 33 of 433 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,000 to $117,600; 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.
- Retained pay of $85,441, from $108,900, 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 33 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Wyoming, so $94,048 — the adjusted value of that $108,900 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 33 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $88,980, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,000 at the bottom tenth to $117,600 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 $94,048 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $85,441 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $88,980. 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 ($46,000 to $117,600) 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 $94,048 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 $85,441 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.