Speech-Language Pathologists in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$66,545
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$15,495
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$73,249
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
$82,040
Kept after tax
$66,545
Worth in national money
$73,249
State rank
42
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for speech-language pathologists is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $82,040. That is 42 of 51 states, and about 16.17% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Within Wyoming this is well-paid work. Of 433 occupations with published figures in the state, speech-language pathologists ranks 90 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Here is where Wyoming does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $82,040 you keep $66,545, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $73,249 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $89,350, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For speech-language pathologists, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $82,040, ranking 42 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 16.17%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Ranked against every occupation Wyoming publishes a median for, speech-language pathologists sits 90 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.
- After federal, FICA and Wyoming income tax, retained pay for speech-language pathologists on $82,040 is $66,545. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $73,249 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 $89,350 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Speech-Language Pathologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $82,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $124,250 |
| This salary | $82,040 |
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 | $66,545 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,545 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,769 |
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 | $82,040 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,588 |
| 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 speech-language pathologists in Wyoming earn under $82,040 and half over. The published range runs $63,520 at the tenth percentile to $124,250 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wyoming's $66,545, worked from $82,040. 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 90 of 433.
- Two cautions on $73,249, the adjusted value of that $82,040 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 90 of 433 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for speech-language pathologists in Wyoming, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $63,520 to $124,250; 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.
- The Wyoming take-home of $66,545, on $82,040 for work ranking 90 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 90 of 433 in the state.
- This $73,249 adjusted figure, worked from $82,040, 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 90 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 90 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 $89,350 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $63,520 and the top tenth $124,250 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $73,249.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $66,545 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $89,350. 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 ($63,520) and the ninetieth ($124,250) 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 $73,249 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 $66,545 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.