Cheyenne, WY Salaries

Compiled by WageDex · August 10, 2026

Highest published occupation medians in Cheyenne, WY - BLS OEWS May 2025

BLS's published All Occupations median in Cheyenne, WY moved from $50,100 in May 2024 to $51,540 in May 2025 (+2.9%).
Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
Cheyenne, WY sits -0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

B-

Wage Scorecard

66/100

Cheyenne, WY

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.

Wage Level B+

$51,540

All-occupation median annual wage (BLS OEWS)

Wage Growth D

+2.9%

Year-over-year change in median wage (BLS OEWS)

Real Purchasing Power B

$53,414

Median wage adjusted for regional price parity (RPP 96.5, BEA)

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 16940 · Cheyenne, WY $61K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

MEAN-MID #164/528
RPP-MID 96.5
OCC-MID 219 occs
TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $343K
EMP-MIX Software Dev…
TREND-INLINE -0.2 pp
PHOTO-FINISH Sheboygan, WI
BOOK-MOST 216 rows · May 2025

Read with Sheboygan, WI (+$5 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
Cheyenne, WY · this MSA	$61K
Sheboygan, WI · near	$61K
Santa Fe, NM · near	$61K
Grand Junction, CO · near	$61K
Beaumont-Port Arthur… · near	$61K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean	$119K

Employment scale inside Cheyenne, WY's top-pay list

Software Developers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Cheyenne, WY's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

1. Software Developers 540 jobs · $121,990
2. Medical and Health Services Managers 320 jobs · $117,160
3. Managers, All Other 270 jobs · $118,720
4. Financial Managers 180 jobs · $116,770
5. Construction Managers 170 jobs · $106,460
6. Physicians, All Other 140 jobs · $342,800
7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 130 jobs · $128,610
8. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $139,900
9. Nurse Practitioners 110 jobs · $134,890
10. Physical Therapists 100 jobs · $101,760
11. Mechanical Engineers 60 jobs · $122,500
12. Physician Assistants 50 jobs · $127,790
13. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $126,610
14. Natural Sciences Managers 50 jobs · $108,520
15. Sales Managers 50 jobs · $108,110
16. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 50 jobs · $104,600
17. Engineers, All Other 40 jobs · $107,810
18. Commercial Pilots 40 jobs · $106,860

Occupations Tracked

219

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$61,315

employment-weighted, 216 complete rows

Top Salary

$342,800

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

96.5

4% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $61,315 by the metro RPP gives $63,545 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Cheyenne, WY

#	Occupation	Median Salary	Mean Salary	Employment
1	Physicians, All Other	$342,800	$314,810	140
2	Marketing Managers	$183,540	$169,440	30
3	Dentists, General	$173,080	$180,490	30
4	Pharmacists	$139,900	$144,340	120
5	Nurse Practitioners	$134,890	$133,470	110
6	Computer and Information Systems Managers	$128,610	$129,760	130
7	Physician Assistants	$127,790	$129,270	50
8	Architectural and Engineering Managers	$126,610	$132,390	50
9	Mechanical Engineers	$122,500	$119,700	60
10	Software Developers	$121,990	$120,380	540
11	Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers	$118,900	$94,020	30
12	Managers, All Other	$118,720	$120,470	270
13	Medical and Health Services Managers	$117,160	$120,740	320
14	Financial Managers	$116,770	$126,300	180
15	Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers	$116,550	$120,450	30
16	Natural Sciences Managers	$108,520	$114,170	50
17	Information Security Analysts	$108,260	$111,030	N/A
18	Sales Managers	$108,110	$122,500	50
19	Engineers, All Other	$107,810	$110,520	40
20	Commercial Pilots	$106,860	$110,820	40
21	Construction Managers	$106,460	$113,320	170
22	Human Resources Managers	$105,170	$115,290	40
23	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products	$104,600	$121,110	50
24	Environmental Engineers	$103,230	$103,470	30
25	Physical Therapists	$101,760	$97,550	100

Lowest Paying Jobs in Cheyenne, WY

Occupation	Median Salary	Employment
Bartenders	$21,690	390
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop	$22,460	110
Waiters and Waitresses	$26,790	600
Driver/Sales Workers	$26,940	170
Childcare Workers	$28,070	220
Animal Caretakers	$28,230	110
Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education	$28,290	200
Fast Food and Counter Workers	$28,720	1,260
Amusement and Recreation Attendants	$29,090	140
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers	$29,090	80

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 ($61,315 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 Cheyenne, WY? ▼

Across the 216 occupation rows for Cheyenne, WY with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $61,315/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 219 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 $130,024, which describes the displayed top tier only.

Which published medians lead Cheyenne, WY? ▼

Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Cheyenne, WY at $342,800/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Marketing Managers at $183,540/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.

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

Cheyenne, WY has a Regional Price Parity of 96.5, meaning prices are 4% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $61,315 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $63,545.

Where does BLS salary data for Cheyenne, 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.

Related federal data

BLS OEWS, metro wage tables → BEA Regional Price Parities →

What to do with this data

How to use Cheyenne, WY wage figures in a real decision

Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Cheyenne, WY at $342,800/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
The employment-weighted published-row mean of $61,315 adjusts to about $63,545 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 96.5. 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.

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