Sewing Machine Operators in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,516
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$4,994
13.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,691
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
$36,510
Kept after tax
$31,516
Worth in national money
$34,691
State rank
27
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wyoming pays sewing machine operators around $36,510 at the midpoint, 27 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 433 occupations Wyoming publishes, sewing machine operators lands at 388. 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 $36,510 you keep $31,516, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $34,691 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $36,440, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For sewing machine operators the Wyoming median is $36,510, ranking 27 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Wyoming, this work ranks 388 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 sewing machine operators on $36,510 is $31,516. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $34,691 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 $36,440 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Sewing Machine Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,510 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,610 |
| This salary | $36,510 |
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 | $31,516 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,516 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,259 |
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 | $36,510 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,732 |
| 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 sewing machine operators in Wyoming earn under $36,510 and half over. The published range runs $30,440 at the tenth percentile to $46,610 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $31,516 take-home in Wyoming comes from $36,510. 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 388 of 433.
- Two cautions on $34,691, the adjusted value of that $36,510 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 388 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for sewing machine operators in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $30,440 to $46,610; 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 $31,516, from $36,510, 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 388 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 50 for it.
- This $34,691 adjusted figure, worked from $36,510, 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 388 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 388 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $30,440 at the tenth percentile, $46,610 at the ninetieth.
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 $34,691 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $31,516 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($30,440 to $46,610) 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 $34,691 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 $31,516 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.