Jobs and pay in Wyoming

The highest-paying occupations in Wyoming

Sorted by median annual wage — the midpoint of what people in the occupation are paid in this state, not what a newcomer earns. Occupations BLS did not release a wage for are absent rather than shown as zero.

2 further occupations are paid more than every figure below, but BLS publishes them only as $239,200 or more, its reporting cap: cardiologists, emergency medicine physicians. They cannot be ranked against each other, so they are named here rather than listed as identical rows.

1. Surgeons, all other$387,880
2. Physicians, all other$342,800
3. Family medicine physicians$264,580
4. Nurse anesthetists$255,250
5. Financial and investment analysts$187,090
6. Architectural and engineering managers$163,560
7. Radiologists$161,750
8. Marketing managers$161,580
9. Industrial production managers$151,490
10. Chief executives$147,940
11. Pharmacists$139,550
12. Physician assistants$136,080
13. Nurse practitioners$132,200
14. Sales managers$129,840
15. Education administrators, postsecondary$127,960
16. Human resources managers$127,520
17. Financial managers$124,910
18. Dentists, general$123,830
19. Purchasing managers$123,380
20. Industrial engineers$122,070
21. Computer and information systems managers$120,850
22. Architects, except landscape and naval$120,580
23. Administrative services managers$120,510
24. Power distributors and dispatchers$120,210
25. Financial risk specialists$119,550

Where the jobs actually are in Wyoming

The same list sorted by how many people are employed in each occupation, which is a different question from what it pays and usually a more useful one. High pay in an occupation employing 400 people statewide is a narrower opportunity than it looks.

1. Retail salespersons8,770 employed
2. General and operations managers7,470 employed
3. Fast food and counter workers7,060 employed
4. Office clerks, general6,670 employed
5. Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers6,050 employed
6. Cashiers5,840 employed
7. Registered nurses5,330 employed
8. Stockers and order fillers4,800 employed
9. Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners4,760 employed
10. Maintenance and repair workers, general3,920 employed
11. Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators3,800 employed
12. Teaching assistants, except postsecondary3,680 employed
13. Waiters and waitresses3,620 employed
14. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks3,480 employed
15. Home health and personal care aides3,410 employed
16. Construction laborers3,350 employed
17. First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers3,270 employed
18. First-line supervisors of retail sales workers3,060 employed
19. Electricians2,960 employed
20. Nursing assistants2,830 employed
21. Maids and housekeeping cleaners2,800 employed
22. Cooks, restaurant2,710 employed
23. Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand2,700 employed
24. First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers2,680 employed
25. Accountants and auditors2,670 employed

The best-paid Wyoming work that typically needs no bachelor's degree

Occupations BLS reports as typically entered with an associate's degree, a postsecondary certificate, some college, a high-school diploma, or no formal credential — sorted by what they pay here. Typical is not a requirement, individual employers set their own, and many of these carry state licensing that the national figure does not capture.

1. Power distributors and dispatchers$120,210 · High school diploma or equivalent
2. Roof bolters, mining$116,570 · High school diploma or equivalent
3. Transportation, storage, and distribution managers$112,310 · High school diploma or equivalent
4. Loading and moving machine operators, underground mining$112,110 · No formal educational credential
5. Stationary engineers and boiler operators$111,920 · High school diploma or equivalent
6. Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders$108,900 · High school diploma or equivalent
7. Chemical plant and system operators$107,810 · High school diploma or equivalent
8. Commercial pilots$102,990 · Postsecondary nondegree award
9. Chemical equipment operators and tenders$101,590 · High school diploma or equivalent
10. Diagnostic medical sonographers$100,650 · Associate's degree
11. Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers$100,350 · High school diploma or equivalent
12. Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door$100,030 · High school diploma or equivalent
13. Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians$99,840 · Associate's degree
14. Power plant operators$99,200 · High school diploma or equivalent
15. Electrical power-line installers and repairers$93,860 · High school diploma or equivalent
16. Air traffic controllers$93,580 · Associate's degree
17. Magnetic resonance imaging technologists$92,010 · Associate's degree
18. First-line supervisors of police and detectives$91,400 · High school diploma or equivalent
19. First-line supervisors of production and operating workers$90,390 · High school diploma or equivalent
20. Health information technologists and medical registrars$88,560 · Associate's degree
21. Postmasters and mail superintendents$88,040 · High school diploma or equivalent
22. First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers$87,460 · High school diploma or equivalent
23. Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment$86,880 · Postsecondary nondegree award
24. Continuous mining machine operators$85,260 · No formal educational credential
25. Dental hygienists$85,130 · Associate's degree

A certificate is a different credential from a degree, not a lesser one. CampusPin publishes the national picture of pay by entry education and which fields are actually awarded as certificates rather than degrees.

What Wyoming does more of than the rest of the country

Location quotient: this occupation's share of Wyoming employment divided by its share of U.S. employment. 2.0 means twice as concentrated here as nationally. It describes where the work IS — not what it pays, and not how easy it is to be hired. Limited to occupations employing at least 500 people in the state, so a tiny base cannot manufacture a large ratio.

Roustabouts, oil and gas lead, much more concentrated here than nationally.

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