The Wyoming tax picture
Wyoming levies no personal income tax, and never has in its modern history. Wages, salaries and investment income all pass to residents with only federal deductions taken.
The arithmetic works because of what lies underground: severance taxes on coal, oil, gas and trona, plus mineral royalties, fund a large share of the state budget. With the smallest population of any state sharing that resource revenue, Wyoming can keep both income and sales taxes low — a structure the Texas Comptroller's five-state guide documents alongside its own.
take-home = gross − federal income tax − Social Security − Medicare − $0 Wyoming taxWorked example · $70,000 salary in Wyoming
- Federal income tax: $6,570 for the year, from the published 2026 brackets.
- Social Security and Medicare: $5,355 — charged on gross wages everywhere in the country.
- Wyoming state income tax: $0 — a verified zero, sourced below, not an estimate.
- Take-home: $58,075 a year, $4,839.58 a month.
Comparing from here
The same salary in South Dakota, Alaska or Texas nets the same federal result — the differences live in each state's other taxes, which their pages explain. For Wyoming itself, the Wyoming paycheck calculator breaks the year into single paychecks, and the main salary calculator lets you model any state. The mechanics behind every line are in the gross pay vs. net pay guide.
What’s included, and what isn’t
Every figure this calculator produces is an estimate. Here is exactly what it accounts for, and what it does not.
What’s included
- Federal income tax, using the published brackets and standard deduction for your filing status.
- Employee Social Security at 6.2%, capped at the annual wage base.
- Employee Medicare at 1.45%, plus Additional Medicare Tax where it applies.
- Any pre-tax contributions you enter, applied to federal taxable income only.
- State income tax for the nine states that levy none on wages — a verified zero, not an omission.
- Conversion of the annual result into monthly, weekly and per-paycheck equivalents.
What’s not included
- State income tax outside the states listed as levying none on wages.
- County, city and other local income taxes.
- Tax credits, itemised deductions and above-the-line adjustments.
- Employer benefits, insurance premiums and post-tax deductions.
- Form W-4 adjustments such as dependants, other income or extra withholding.
- Bonuses, commission and overtime, which payroll often withholds at a separate supplemental rate.
- Multiple jobs, a working spouse's income, and mid-year pay changes.
What this calculator assumes
- Uses the federal standard deduction for the selected filing status and tax year.
- Assumes W-2 employment at one job for the full calendar year.
- Pre-tax contributions reduce federal taxable income but not Social Security or Medicare wages.
- Social Security stops at the $184,500 wage base for 2026.
- Additional Medicare Tax follows the taxpayer's liability threshold for their filing status.
Sources
Every rate and threshold above is transcribed from a primary source and re-checked on the date shown.
Frequently asked questions
Does Wyoming tax wages or salaries?
No. Wyoming levies no personal income tax of any kind. A Wyoming paycheck carries only the federal deductions — income tax, Social Security and Medicare.
What funds Wyoming instead of income tax?
Severance taxes and royalties on the state's minerals — coal, oil, gas and trona — carry an outsized share of the budget. Resource wealth divided across the nation's smallest state population is what makes the no-tax structure sustainable.
Is investment income taxed in Wyoming?
No — with no personal income tax at all, dividends, interest and capital gains are untaxed at the state level, which has made the state popular for trusts and holding companies.
Does remote work from Wyoming avoid my employer's state tax?
Generally your income is taxed where you perform the work, so genuinely working from Wyoming means no state income tax — but some states apply special rules to remote workers of in-state employers, so check the employer state's guidance before relying on it.
Is take-home pay in Wyoming the same as in other no-income-tax states?
For the same salary and filing status, yes — federal tax, Social Security and Medicare are identical nationwide, and Wyoming adds nothing on top. What differs between the nine no-tax states is everything around the paycheck: sales and property taxes, living costs, and rules like the ones covered in the FAQs above.