Casper, WY Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Casper, WY - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Casper, WY moved from $47,640 in May 2024 to $48,880 in May 2025 (+2.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Casper, WY sits -0.5 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 16220 · Casper, WY $59K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #236/528
- RPP-LOW 93.8
- OCC-THIN 192 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $315K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Grand Forks, ND-MN
- BOOK-MOST 191 rows · May 2025
Read with Grand Forks, ND-MN ($6 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Casper, WY
Employment scale inside Casper, WY's top-pay list
General and Operations Managers and Project Management Specialists lead published employment inside Casper, WY's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 1,190 jobs · $101,450
- 2. Project Management Specialists 180 jobs · $98,910
- 3. Medical and Health Services Managers 170 jobs · $103,160
- 4. Software Developers 150 jobs · $103,000
- 5. Lawyers 140 jobs · $102,890
- 6. Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers 120 jobs · $99,500
- 7. Tutors 100 jobs · $103,420
- 8. Physical Therapists 100 jobs · $98,880
- 9. Managers, All Other 80 jobs · $132,320
- 10. Financial Managers 80 jobs · $129,430
- 11. Petroleum Engineers 80 jobs · $125,640
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 80 jobs · $121,810
- 13. Pharmacists 70 jobs · $136,020
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $135,350
- 15. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 60 jobs · $114,170
- 16. Mechanical Engineers 60 jobs · $101,010
- 17. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $315,050
- 18. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $129,670
Occupations Tracked
192
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,607
employment-weighted, 191 complete rows
Top Salary
$315,050
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
93.8
6% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Casper, WY
Lowest Paying Jobs in Casper, WY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Bartenders | $21,490 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $22,040 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $24,600 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $26,120 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $26,870 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $26,870 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $27,190 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $27,740 |
| Childcare Workers | $27,860 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,070 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in WY
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside WY. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($58,607 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Casper, WY wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Casper, WY at $315,050/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $58,607 adjusts to about $62,461 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 93.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for WY before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.