Prices, pay, taxes, homes and family budgets, county by county, from the same official data the site's calculators use.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis measures price levels in every state against a national average of 100. Wyoming scores 92.7 overall, so a $75,000 salary at average US prices buys what $69,518 buys here. Compare any salary with another state.
| Price level | Wyoming (US = 100) | Rank, most expensive first |
|---|---|---|
| Everything | 92.7 | 36th of 51 |
| Rents | 71.1 | 41st of 51 |
| Goods | 95.4 | — |
| Other services | 100.4 | — |
Home electricity averaged 12.47 cents a kilowatt-hour in 2024, against 17.06 across all states. A gallon of regular gas cost $4.36 at the end of August 2026, against $4.12.
Across all 280,740 jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts in Wyoming, the median pay is $50,270 a year, or $24.17 an hour; that ranks 22nd of the 50 states and DC. One worker in ten earns less than $28,870 and one in ten more than $104,190.
Wyoming has no state income tax on wages. More on taxes in Wyoming. A single filer on the median $50,270, with no retirement or health deductions, takes home about $42,572 a year, or $1,637 every two weeks, after $3,852 of federal income tax, $3,846 of Social Security and Medicare. Work out your own paycheck in Wyoming.
The five occupations employing the most people, with their median annual pay:
| Occupation | Jobs | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Salespersons | 8,770 | $34,310 |
| General and Operations Managers | 7,470 | $99,700 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 7,060 | $27,860 |
| Office Clerks, General | 6,670 | $42,840 |
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | 6,050 | $60,310 |
Of the 20 largest occupations, the best paid are general and operations managers ($99,700), registered nurses ($83,760), first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers ($78,250). See what common jobs pay in every state.
Across the 23 Wyoming counties with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $328,091, and across the 12 with their own rent figure the median typical rent is $1,335 a month. A typical home costs 3.54 years of the county's median family income, at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $2,597 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $111,319 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The median family can afford its own county's typical home in 8.7% of Wyoming's counties, against 44.9% of counties nationally. Try it with your own income.
At the median county, home values changed +1.7% over the past year and +30.3% over five years, and rents +2.4% over the past year.
The most expensive Wyoming counties are Teton County ($2,235,034), Lincoln County ($509,134) and Sublette County ($458,393); the least expensive are Niobrara County ($188,062), Carbon County ($218,481) and Hot Springs County ($246,618).
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county: housing, food, transport, healthcare, childcare, other necessities and taxes. In the median Wyoming county, that comes to $48,524 a year for one adult and $110,230 for two adults and two children, of which $15,108 is childcare. The national averages are $47,367 and $101,771. Median family income in the median county is $93,200.
| Two adults, two children | Per year, median county | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | $11,748 | $979 |
| Food | $12,417 | $1,035 |
| Transportation | $21,174 | $1,765 |
| Healthcare | $29,470 | $2,456 |
| Childcare | $15,108 | $1,259 |
| Other necessities | $7,452 | $621 |
| Taxes | $13,134 | $1,095 |
Each line is its own median across counties, so the lines do not add up exactly to the total.
The Department of Education's College Scorecard lists 11 colleges in Wyoming, 8 of them public. The median public college reports a cost of attendance of $16,074 a year, covering tuition, housing, books and other expenses. Ten years after enrolling, the median school's former students earn $40,706. Compare degrees and schools.
| Albany County | $380,534 | −0.2% | $1,157 | $96,310 | $110,387 |
| Big Horn County | $286,534 | +3.0% | — | $81,006 | $116,774 |
| Campbell County | $340,426 | −4.5% | $1,326 | $104,362 | $110,230 |
| Carbon County | $218,481 | +2.8% | $1,006 | $76,087 | $107,545 |
| Converse County | $316,708 | +2.1% | — | $95,517 | $102,877 |
| Crook County | $429,749 | +2.1% | — | $97,784 | $110,310 |
| Fremont County | $328,091 | +0.6% | $1,181 | $81,914 | $108,339 |
| Goshen County | $251,683 | −0.1% | — | $77,379 | $105,420 |
| Hot Springs County | $246,618 | +1.8% | — | $89,821 | $106,907 |
| Johnson County | $423,439 | +2.4% | — | $77,055 | $114,175 |
| Laramie County | $394,023 | +3.5% | $1,528 | $98,507 | $109,402 |
| Lincoln County | $509,134 | +0.5% | $1,714 | $108,836 | $121,002 |
| Natrona County | $315,845 | +1.7% | $1,404 | $91,993 | $109,085 |
| Niobrara County | $188,062 | −2.3% | — | $64,732 | $104,747 |
| Park County | $448,501 | −3.1% | $1,306 | $92,054 | $111,385 |
| Platte County | $277,927 | +0.5% | — | $72,060 | $106,942 |
| Sheridan County | $444,347 | +1.3% | $1,480 | $100,000 | $115,488 |
| Sublette County | $458,393 | +3.3% | $1,343 | $105,875 | $128,365 |
| Sweetwater County | $293,758 | 0.0% | $1,121 | $99,495 | $110,471 |
| Teton County | $2,235,034 | +1.8% | $4,383 | $131,000 | $151,322 |
| Uinta County | $337,916 | +3.4% | — | $95,870 | $107,555 |
| Washakie County | $276,722 | +8.4% | — | $80,776 | $108,671 |
| Weston County | $249,386 | −0.8% | — | $93,200 | $114,807 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Home values and rents are Zillow's own county figures only; counties Zillow does not cover are left blank rather than filled with a state average.
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County figures are medians across Wyoming's counties, each counting once, so they describe the spread of places rather than of people. Property tax and insurance vary widely; the calculators let you use your own.