Special Education Teachers, Secondary School in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,600
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$10,150
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,898
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
$62,750
Kept after tax
$52,600
Worth in national money
$57,898
State rank
30
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wyoming pays this job around $62,750 at the midpoint, 30 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 175 among 433 occupations Wyoming publishes pay for.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $62,750 you keep $52,600, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $57,898 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $65,400, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For special education teachers, secondary school the Wyoming median is $62,750, ranking 30 of 51 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.
- Position 175 of 433 in Wyoming places special education teachers, secondary school in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for special education teachers, secondary school on $62,750 is $52,600. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $57,898 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 $65,400 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,900 |
| This salary | $62,750 |
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 | $52,600 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,600 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,770 |
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 | $62,750 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,674 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,750 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $52,440 and the ninetieth is $77,900 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $52,600, worked from $62,750. 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 175 of 433.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $57,898 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 175.
- The Wyoming median of $62,750 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $52,440 to $77,900. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Wyoming take-home of $52,600, on $62,750 for work ranking 175 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 175 of 433 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $57,898, worked from $62,750, 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 175 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 $65,400 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $52,440 at the bottom tenth to $77,900 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $57,898 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $52,600 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $65,400. 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 ($52,440 to $77,900) 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 $57,898 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 $52,600 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.