Wyoming Paycheck Calculator 2026

How this calculator works

Wyoming is one of the simplest paychecks in the country to work out, because there is no state or local layer to add. Whatever the federal government and FICA leave you is what reaches your account. Three deductions, and that is the whole list:

• Federal income tax, on your pay after the standard deduction, at the 2026 brackets.
• Social Security, 6.2% of gross pay up to the annual wage base.
• Medicare, 1.45% of gross pay with no cap, plus 0.9% on pay above $200,000.

There is no fourth line. Wyoming has no state withholding, no local income tax, and no payroll program deducted from wages. Unemployment insurance is financed by the employer, which is why it never appears on your payslip.

That last point is worth stating plainly, because “no income tax” does not always mean “nothing comes out”. Alaska has no income tax either and still withholds a share of unemployment insurance from every check. Wyoming really does take nothing.

The law that closes both doors at once

Most states without an income tax simply never wrote one into law, or repealed one over time. Wyoming did something more direct: it wrote a statute that forbids the state and every local government from ever levying one. Wyoming Statutes Title 39, Chapter 12 — the entire chapter set aside for “Income Tax” in the state's tax code — contains exactly one section, § 39-12-101, titled “Preemption by state”:

“The state of Wyoming does hereby preempt for itself the field of imposing and levying income taxes, earning taxes, or any other form of tax based on wages or other income and no county, city, town or other political subdivision shall have the right to impose, levy or collect such taxes.”

One sentence answers two questions a mover usually has to research separately: whether the state taxes wages, and whether the city or county can add its own layer on top. In Wyoming, both answers are settled by the same statute, and no local government in the state can ever pass an ordinance that changes that. The Wyoming Department of Revenue's own list of the taxes it administers — sales, use, lodging, cigarette and estate tax; mineral severance tax; property tax — has no income tax on it, because there is nothing to administer.

Wyoming take-home pay by salary

Single filer, standard deduction, 2026 rates, no 401(k) contribution. Every figure comes from the same arithmetic the calculator above runs.

Wyoming hourly paycheck: what your rate is worth after tax

At 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. The gross hourly rate is the same everywhere; what survives tax is not.

What this calculator does not cover

This tool models federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare and the payroll programs your state actually runs — nothing more. It deliberately leaves out:

• Itemized deductions and federal tax credits — the Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, education credits. The engine always applies the standard deduction; there is no itemizing path.
• A second job, self-employment income or 1099 pay. Every dollar you enter is treated as one employer’s W-2 wages, taxed at the employee share of Social Security and Medicare — not the self-employment tax a 1099 worker actually owes.
• Pre-tax benefits other than the 401(k) field — health insurance premiums, an HSA or FSA, commuter benefits. The only amount taken out before tax is the percentage you enter for a 401(k).
• Local taxes — city income tax, county tax, or a school-district tax. Where a state levies one, our methodology page says so by name; this calculator does not add that line, with two exceptions: the Indiana and Maryland calculators add the local income tax for the county you choose.
• Overtime premiums. An hourly rate is multiplied by the hours you enter; it does not add a time-and-a-half rate for hours worked past 40 in a week.
• Wage garnishments or court-ordered deductions — child support, a wage levy. Your result assumes none exist.
• The Additional Medicare Tax, at the single-filer threshold. The 0.9% surtax above $200,000 is applied at that one figure for every filing status, the way an employer actually withholds it — not the higher threshold a married couple filing jointly may end up owing at tax return time.
• Married filing separately, or a qualifying surviving spouse. The calculator only offers single, married filing jointly, and head of household.

None of these are in the estimate. Some of them change what you owe or get back when you file, and a calculator cannot ask for everything they depend on. See why your pay stub will differ for the details.

Key facts that affect your take-home pay in Wyoming

• No state income tax, and the law bars a local one too. Wyoming Statutes § 39-12-101 preempts the field for the state and for every county, city and town in the same sentence.
• No state filing status. Marriage changes your federal tax and nothing else. The selector above is federal-only for this state.
• A 401(k) still helps, but only federally. Deferring pay cuts your federal tax; there is no state tax here for it to cut.
• Unemployment insurance is the employer's, and the rate varies by industry. Wyoming assigns new-employer rates by NAICS classification rather than one flat figure, and none of it is withheld from wages.

Common mistakes people make

• Assuming a no-tax state means nothing is withheld. True in Wyoming, not true in Washington or Alaska. Check the state, not the label.
• Looking for a Wyoming city income tax and, when none turns up, assuming the search missed something. It is not missing. The state statute bars it outright, so there is nothing to find.
• Comparing a Wyoming offer to one in Idaho on gross pay alone. On $60,000 the gap is $2,327 a year, which is real money and does not show up in the salary line.

Example calculation

A single filer on $60,000 in Wyoming, 2026, no 401(k):

• Gross pay: $60,000.00
• Federal income tax: −$5,020.00
• Social Security (6.2%): −$3,720.00
• Medicare (1.45%): −$870.00
• Wyoming state tax: $0.00
• Take-home pay: $50,390.00 a year, or $4,199.17 a month

Compare with neighboring states

The same $60,000, single filer, 2026. Idaho, Montana, Nebraska and Utah border Wyoming; Texas is included because it is the other state on this site where the figures come out identical.

Wyoming and Texas come out identical to the cent, because neither withholds anything at state or local level. Against Utah, its neighbor with a flat 4.5% tax, the gap is $2,670 a year on the same gross pay.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

Every figure on this page is read from an official document and dated, not taken from another calculator — the federal ones from the IRS and the Social Security Administration, the Wyoming ones from the state’s own documents below. Each one carries the date we last checked that it still answers. If one of our numbers disagrees with one of theirs, they are right and we have a defect to fix — tell us.

The documents these figures are read from

• Wyoming Statutes, Title 39, § 39-12-101, “Preemption by state” (PDF) — the single statute that bars both the state and every county, city and town from levying a tax on wages or other income.
• Wyoming Department of Workforce Services — Unemployment Taxable Wage Base — the $33,800 taxable wage base for 2026.
• Wyoming Department of Workforce Services — Unemployment Tax Rates — the rule that new-employer rates are set by industry rather than a single flat rate, with an 8.5% ceiling for a late registration.
• IRS — 2026 inflation adjustments (Rev. Proc. 2025-32) — the federal brackets and the $16,100 standard deduction.
• IRS — Topic no. 751, Social Security and Medicare withholding rates — the 6.2% and 1.45% rates and the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax.
• SSA — Contribution and benefit base — the $184,500 Social Security wage base.

All links checked September 30, 2026.

Related reading

• Paycheck calculators for every state we publish
• Texas paycheck calculator — the other state where the figures come out the same
• Idaho paycheck calculator — Wyoming's neighbor to the west, with a flat state tax
• How we calculate these figures, and where the rates come from