Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,331
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$10,329
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,703
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
$63,660
Kept after tax
$53,331
Worth in national money
$58,703
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wyoming pays this job around $63,660 at the midpoint, 26 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 433 occupations Wyoming reports figures for, this is number 161.
- Wyoming is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $63,660 the take-home is $53,331; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $58,703 would nationally. The average lands at $62,750, below the middle of the range.
- For telecommunications line installers and repairers the Wyoming median is $63,660, ranking 26 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.
- In Wyoming's occupational distribution, telecommunications line installers and repairers sits at 161 of 433 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Post-tax income for telecommunications line installers and repairers in Wyoming, on $63,660, is $53,331 — equivalent to $58,703 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 $62,750 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,240 |
| This salary | $63,660 |
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 | $53,331 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,331 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,822 |
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 | $63,660 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,876 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,660 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,580 and the ninetieth is $91,240 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $53,331 take-home in Wyoming comes from $63,660. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 161 of 433.
- Two cautions on $58,703, the adjusted value of that $63,660 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 161 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $63,660 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,580 to $91,240. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $53,331, from $63,660, assumes a single Wyoming filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 161 of 433 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 51 for it.
- This $58,703 adjusted figure, worked from $63,660, 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 161 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 161 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $38,580, the highest tenth $91,240, 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 $58,703 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $53,331 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,580) and the ninetieth ($91,240) 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 $58,703 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 $53,331 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.