Wyoming · BLS May 2025
Also called grade school teacher. BLS records this occupation as “Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education” (SOC 25-2021).
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 2,600 elementary school teachers working in Wyoming. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Wyoming
$61,150A year. BLS publishes no hourly wage for this occupation.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $51,630 | Not published |
| 25th percentile | $59,310 | Not published |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $61,150 | Not published |
| 75th percentile | $73,860 | Not published |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $76,860 | Not published |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $63,630 | Not published |
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A $61,150 salary in Wyoming, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Wyoming sit at 92.7 against a national average of 100, so $61,150 earned here buys what $65,972 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for elementary school teachers in Wyoming is $61,150 a year.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $61,150, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $51,314 a year, or roughly $4,276 a month.
That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 16.1%.
Wyoming levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.
No. The median in Wyoming is 4.4% below the national median of $63,970.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Wyoming sit at 92.7 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.8 times the median household income of $76,176. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Wyoming run at 92.7 against a national average of 100, with rents at 71.1, so $61,150 here buys about what $65,972 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $76,860 a year or more, against $51,630 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Wyoming someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 2,600 of these jobs in Wyoming for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 4% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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