Wyoming Minimum Wage 2026
Figure basis: Official Wyoming Department of Workforce ServicesWyoming's own minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, but because that is below the federal minimum, most Wyoming workers are covered by the federal rate of $7.25 per hour. This Wyoming minimum wage calculator turns that hourly rate into the numbers that actually matter to you: weekly, monthly and yearly pay. At $7.25 an hour, someone working a full 40-hour week earns about $290.00 before tax, or roughly $15,080.00 across a full year. Enter your own hours per week and weeks worked to see your gross pay, and edit the rate if you are paid above the minimum. The minimum wage is a floor, not a ceiling: employers can pay more, and some cities in Wyoming set their own higher local minimums. Tipped workers can be paid a lower cash wage as long as tips bring them up to the minimum; see the tipped calculator for that. The figure here is the state rate for 2026, sourced directly from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services; the pay calculation is simply hours times the rate.
Wyoming's 2026 minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Full time (40 hrs/week) that is about $290.00 a week and $15,080.00 a year before tax.
How Wyoming minimum wage pay is calculated
weekly pay = hourly rate x hours per week
annual pay = hourly rate x hours per week x weeks per year
overtime = hourly rate x 1.5 (hours over 40 in a week, FLSA)
These are gross figures before federal and Wyoming income tax, Social Security and Medicare. Your take-home pay is lower; see our Wyoming paycheck calculator for the after-tax amount.
Wyoming's law still says $5.15, but almost nobody earns it
Wyoming is one of only two states (with Georgia) whose statutory minimum wage is still $5.15 per hour, a figure left over from the federal rate of 1997. That number is largely symbolic: any employer covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act must pay at least $7.25, and that covers nearly every business in the state. The rate that actually reaches workers is therefore $7.25, which is why this calculator defaults to it.
The gap matters only at the edges. A worker genuinely exempt from the FLSA and covered solely by Wyoming law could in theory be paid $5.15, but such cases are rare. For a typical full-time worker (2,080 hours), $7.25 comes to $15,080 a year before tax; the state's own $5.15 would be just $10,712, a $4,368 difference that shows how far the statutory figure has slipped behind the cost of living.
Wyoming does not index its minimum to inflation and has not raised the state figure in decades, so any change would require the Legislature to act. Tipped workers follow the federal model: a $2.13 cash wage, with tips expected to lift pay to the applicable $7.25 minimum. Wyoming sets no city or county minimums, so the same rules apply statewide. Confirm the current federal rate, and any state change, with the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services.
Wyoming minimum wage: frequently asked questions
What is the minimum wage in Wyoming in 2026?
Wyoming's own minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, but because that is below the federal minimum, most Wyoming workers are covered by the federal rate of $7.25 per hour. At $7.25 an hour, a full-time worker (40 hours a week) earns about $290.00 a week and $15,080.00 a year before tax. This rate took effect on July 24, 2009.
How much is full-time minimum wage in Wyoming per year?
At Wyoming's $7.25 minimum wage, 40 hours a week for 52 weeks is 2,080 hours, which comes to about $15,080.00 a year ($1,256.67 a month) in gross pay before tax and deductions. Part-time hours scale down from there; use the calculator to enter your own hours.
Is Wyoming's minimum wage going up?
Wyoming does not automatically index its minimum wage to inflation, so it changes only when the law changes. The figure here is the 2026 rate verified with the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services.
What is the tipped minimum wage in Wyoming?
Wyoming lets employers pay tipped workers a lower cash wage of $2.13 an hour and count up to $5.12 of tips toward the minimum (a "tip credit"). If cash wage plus tips does not reach $7.25 an hour, the employer must make up the difference. See our Wyoming tipped minimum wage calculator for the full breakdown.
Is Wyoming's minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage?
No. The rate that applies in Wyoming is the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. Where a state and the federal rate differ, workers are entitled to the higher of the two.
Official sources
- Wyoming 2026 minimum wage rate: Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, as at July 11, 2026.
- Federal minimum wage ($7.25) and overtime rules: US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.
Reviewed by the CalculatorHub team, edited by James Graham, 11 July 2026. See our methodology. General information, not legal or financial advice. The state-law minimum is $5.15 (below federal), so the federal $7.25 applies to nearly all employers.