Transportation Security Screeners in Wyoming
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,282
after federal, FICA and Wyoming tax
Tax takes
$9,828
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,448
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
$61,110
Kept after tax
$51,282
Worth in national money
$56,448
State rank
41
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Wyoming. The middle earner gets $61,110. That is 41 of 45 states, and about 8.48% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Wyoming, this sits in the middle: 197 of 433 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $61,110 you keep $51,282 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $56,448 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $61,140, since top earners drag the number up.
- For transportation security screeners, Wyoming sits in the lower band at $61,110, ranking 41 of 45 and trailing the national median by about 8.48%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Transportation security screeners ranks 197 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.
- Retained pay in Wyoming is $51,282 after the full tax stack, from $61,110. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $56,448 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $61,140 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Transportation Security Screeners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,880 |
| This salary | $61,110 |
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 | $51,282 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,282 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,675 |
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 | $61,110 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,445 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,110 as a midpoint for Wyoming, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,640 and the ninetieth is $73,880 — 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 $51,282, worked from $61,110. 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 197 of 433.
- Two cautions on $56,448, the adjusted value of that $61,110 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 197 of 433 locally.
- The Wyoming median of $61,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,640 to $73,880. 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 $51,282, on $61,110 for work ranking 197 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 197 of 433 in the state.
- This $56,448 adjusted figure, worked from $61,110, 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 197 of 433 in the state. The occupation ranks 197 of 433 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $45,640 at the bottom tenth to $73,880 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 $56,448 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,282 of this wage reaches your account, because Wyoming takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($45,640 to $73,880) 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 $56,448 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 $51,282 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.