Software Developers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$89,852
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$25,318
22.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$98,904
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
$115,170
Kept after tax
$89,852
Worth in national money
$98,904
State rank
39
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays software developers a middle wage of $115,170, 39 of 50 states and about 15.3% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Wyoming. It ranks 23 out of 433 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $115,170 the take-home is $89,852; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $98,904 would nationally. The average comes to $123,360, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wyoming's $115,170 median for software developers places it 39 of 50 states, about 15.3% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Within Wyoming, software developers ranks 23 of 433 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Post-tax income for software developers in Wyoming, on $115,170, is $89,852 — equivalent to $98,904 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 $123,360 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Software Developers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $72,950 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $115,170 |
| Top tenth earn over | $156,620 |
| This salary | $115,170 |
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 | $89,852 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $89,852 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,440 |
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 | $115,170 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,961 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Wyoming earn less than $115,170. The published range is $72,950 up to $156,620, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Wyoming the take-home figure of $89,852, from $115,170, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 23 of 433 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $98,904, the adjusted value of that $115,170 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 23 of 433 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for software developers in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $72,950 to $156,620. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Wyoming is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $89,852 from $115,170. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 23 of 433 locally.
- This $98,904 adjusted figure, worked from $115,170, 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 23 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 23 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 $123,360, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $72,950, the highest tenth $156,620, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $98,904 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $89,852 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 $123,360. 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 ($72,950) and the ninetieth ($156,620) 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 $98,904 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 $89,852 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.