Accountant salary in Cheyenne, WY

Pay in Cheyenne against Wyoming and the US

The middle half of accountants in Cheyenne earns $58,660–$95,050. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $114,010, only 2.2 times the bottom tenth, against 2.6 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $36,390 wide, against $40,090 across Wyoming and $42,790 nationally: employers in Cheyenne pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an accountant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $15,390 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $21,000, or about $27,097 once benefits are added. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $83,680 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Cheyenne, and the Wyoming statewide median of $77,620 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Cheyenne

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $21,498 to the $74,050 median and brings it to $95,548 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Cheyenne

Of the 14 roles we track in Cheyenne, this one ranks #3 by median pay, between recruiters ($74,830) and office managers ($64,110). Project Coordinator is the highest at $93,060.

Measured against the US median, accountants rank #9 of the 14 roles we track in Cheyenne (-11.5%), between project coordinators (-9.1%) and administrative assistants (-18.8%). The typical role here is at -8.4%, so, measured against the US, accountants cost less in Cheyenne than the area's general pay level would suggest. Accountants hold 16.7% of the jobs in these 14 roles in Cheyenne, 13.2% across Wyoming and 9.3% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Wyoming

Across the 4 areas of Wyoming with data for this job, the median runs from $74,050 in Cheyenne to $83,890 in Casper, a gap of $9,840 a year. All 2 areas in Wyoming with more accountants than Cheyenne also pay more, among them the Western Wyoming nonmetro area ($80,000) and the Eastern Wyoming nonmetro area ($77,770).

Cheyenne against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Cheyenne is #277 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Wyoming, Dubuque and Lebanon pay just above Cheyenne and Elizabethtown and Albany just below. All four are within $140 a year of the median in Cheyenne. Of the three markets with about as many accountants, one pays more.

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