Surgical Technologists in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,466
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$9,384
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,449
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
$58,850
Kept after tax
$49,466
Worth in national money
$54,449
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wyoming is among the lower-paying states for surgical technologists. The middle earner takes $58,850, ranking 45 of 51 states — about 8.97% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 219 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 $58,850 you keep $49,466, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $54,449 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $59,730, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wyoming ranks 45 of 51 for surgical technologists, with a median of $58,850 — about 8.97% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Surgical technologists ranks 219 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 surgical technologists on $58,850 is $49,466. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $54,449 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 $59,730 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Surgical Technologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,920 |
| This salary | $58,850 |
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 | $49,466 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,466 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,545 |
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 | $58,850 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,287 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,850 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,080 and the ninetieth is $79,920 — 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 $49,466, worked from $58,850. 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 219 of 433.
- Two cautions on $54,449, the adjusted value of that $58,850 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 219 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $58,850 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,080 to $79,920. 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 $49,466, on $58,850 for work ranking 219 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 219 of 433 in the state.
- This $54,449 adjusted figure, worked from $58,850, 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 219 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 219 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $45,080 at the tenth percentile, $79,920 at the ninetieth.
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 $54,449.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $49,466 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?
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($45,080 to $79,920) 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 $54,449 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 $49,466 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.