How much do rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators make in Wyoming?

The median wage for rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators in Wyoming is $71,580 a year, or $34.41 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators in Wyoming is $69,240 a year. The median is $71,580.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

The median hourly wage is $34.41. At a full-time year that lines up with about $71,580 a year.

BLS May 2025; hourly and annual figures come from the same survey.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Wyoming, the lowest-paid 10% of rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators earn under $48,830 a year and a quarter earn under $66,360 ($23.48 and $31.90 an hour).

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators in Wyoming spans from $48,830 for the bottom 10% to $79,810 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $66,360 and $79,810 a year, with the overall median at $71,580.

On the median wage of $71,580, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $59,187 a year, or roughly $4,932 a month.

That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 17.3%.

Wyoming levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.

On the median annual salary of $71,580, estimated take-home pay is roughly $4,932 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $2,276 net.

Yes. The median in Wyoming is 2.2% above the national median of $70,070.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Wyoming sit at 92.7 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 0.94 times the median household income of $76,176. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Wyoming run at 92.7 against a national average of 100, with rents at 71.1, so $71,580 here buys about what $77,224 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $79,810 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $48,830.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Wyoming someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 220 of these jobs in Wyoming for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 535% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.