Special Education Teachers, Preschool in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,042
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$8,058
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,479
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
$52,100
Kept after tax
$44,042
Worth in national money
$48,479
State rank
41
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Wyoming pays this job a middle wage of $52,100, 41 of 45 states and about 19.64% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 253 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $52,100 you keep $44,042, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $48,479 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $53,400, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming's $52,100 median for special education teachers, preschool places it 41 of 45 states, about 19.64% 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.
- Special education teachers, preschool ranks 253 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for special education teachers, preschool on $52,100 is $44,042. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $48,479 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 $53,400 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Special Education Teachers, Preschool
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,980 |
| This salary | $52,100 |
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 | $44,042 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,042 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,156 |
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 | $52,100 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,817 |
| 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 $52,100. The published range is $45,300 up to $61,980, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $44,042, worked from $52,100. 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 253 of 433.
- Two cautions on $48,479, the adjusted value of that $52,100 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 253 of 433 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for special education teachers, preschool in Wyoming the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,300 to $61,980. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Wyoming take-home of $44,042, on $52,100 for work ranking 253 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 253 of 433 in the state.
- This $48,479 adjusted figure, worked from $52,100, 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 253 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 253 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $45,300 and the top tenth $61,980, so most people doing this work in Wyoming sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $48,479 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $44,042 survives, because Wyoming levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($45,300 to $61,980) 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 $48,479 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 $44,042 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.