Casper, WY Salaries

Compiled by WageDex · August 10, 2026

Highest published occupation medians in Casper, WY - BLS OEWS May 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.

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.

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Label	Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean	$32K
Casper, WY · this MSA	$59K
Grand Forks, ND-MN · near	$59K
Greensboro-High Poin… · near	$59K
Janesville-Beloit, WI · near	$59K
Lafayette-West Lafay… · near	$59K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean	$119K

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

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $58,607 by the metro RPP gives $62,461 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Casper, WY

#	Occupation	Median Salary	Mean Salary	Employment
1	Physicians, All Other	$315,050	$284,730	50
2	Pharmacists	$136,020	$139,850	70
3	Industrial Production Managers	$135,350	$144,130	60
4	Managers, All Other	$132,320	$135,220	80
5	Sales Managers	$129,670	$135,710	50
6	Financial Managers	$129,430	$134,970	80
7	Dentists, General	$129,030	$160,840	40
8	Physician Assistants	$127,640	$123,820	40
9	Petroleum Engineers	$125,640	$134,950	80
10	Nurse Practitioners	$121,810	$127,260	80
11	Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers	$114,170	$100,820	60
12	Speech-Language Pathologists	$109,540	$106,650	40
13	Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary	$108,060	$112,260	50
14	Tutors	$103,420	$101,050	100
15	Medical and Health Services Managers	$103,160	$106,980	170
16	Software Developers	$103,000	$112,320	150
17	Lawyers	$102,890	$124,440	140
18	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products	$102,660	$109,200	50
19	General and Operations Managers	$101,450	$120,790	1,190
20	Mechanical Engineers	$101,010	$110,240	60
21	Electrical Engineers	$100,820	$106,810	50
22	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians	$99,840	$84,690	40
23	Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers	$99,500	$90,210	120
24	Project Management Specialists	$98,910	$98,710	180
25	Physical Therapists	$98,880	$100,020	100

Lowest Paying Jobs in Casper, WY

Occupation	Median Salary	Employment
Bartenders	$21,490	430
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop	$22,040	120
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers	$24,600	80
Amusement and Recreation Attendants	$26,120	110
Driver/Sales Workers	$26,870	120
Waiters and Waitresses	$26,870	590
Packers and Packagers, Hand	$27,190	40
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists	$27,740	80
Childcare Workers	$27,860	170
Fast Food and Counter Workers	$28,070	1,110

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.

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Casper, WY? ▼

Across the 191 occupation rows for Casper, WY with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $58,607/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 192 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $121,171, which describes the displayed top tier only.

Which published medians lead Casper, WY? ▼

Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Casper, WY at $315,050/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Pharmacists at $136,020/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.

What is the cost of living in Casper, WY? ▼

Casper, WY has a Regional Price Parity of 93.8, meaning prices are 6% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $58,607 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $62,461.

Where does BLS salary data for Casper, WY come from? ▼

All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

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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.

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