- The middle half earn between $18.51 and $29.70 an hour.
- Wyoming ranks 33rd of the 50 states and DC for median pay in this trade.
- Wyoming pays more than 1 of its 6 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 3,920 handymen on payrolls in Wyoming.
- At the state median wage, a handyman business needs to bill about $111.03 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Handyman pay in Wyoming, bottom to top
BLS has no separate figure for handymen. These are its numbers for general maintenance and repair workers, the closest group: people who keep buildings and equipment in repair using the skills of two or more trades. Real estate, schools and government are among the top industries BLS lists for them.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $14.94 | $31,070 | $17.00 |
| 25th percentile | $18.51 | $38,510 | $19.64 |
| Median | $23.03 | $47,900 | $23.84 |
| 75th percentile | $29.70 | $61,780 | $30.10 |
| 90th percentile | $38.51 | $80,100 | $37.11 |
| Average (mean) | $25.44 | $52,910 | $25.86 |
Pay spreads out a lot in Wyoming. The bottom tenth earn $14.94 an hour or less while the top tenth earn $38.51 or more, a gap of 2.6 times against 2.2 nationally. Where a handyman sits on that range matters as much as the state.
The bottom of the scale is lower than nationally ($14.94 against $17.00) while the top is higher ($38.51 against $37.11), so the climb from new hire to top earner is longer here.
The average wage, $25.44, sits 10% above the median. A smaller group of higher earners pulls the average up, so the median is the better guide to what a typical handyman makes.
How Wyoming compares with other states
Over a full year the gap to the national median is small: $47,900 in Wyoming against $49,590 nationally, $1,690 less.
In the state ranking, Wyoming sits 33rd, between South Dakota ($23.13) and South Carolina ($23.02). North Carolina has exactly the same median, $23.03, so the two share that place. The range runs from $18.70 in West Virginia to $29.00 in the District of Columbia.
Against its neighboring states, Wyoming is in the middle: Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota and Utah pay more, and Montana pays less.
How many handymen work in Wyoming
Wyoming has one of the smaller workforces in the trade: 3,920 handymen on payrolls, 0.3% of the 1,529,700 nationwide.
The trade is a bigger part of the local job market than it is nationally: 14.0 of every 1,000 jobs in Wyoming, 1.4 times the national share.
What a handyman business in Wyoming should charge
Say you run a handyman business in Wyoming and pay the state median of $23.03 an hour. Here is the labor rate calculator's math on its starting numbers: 40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit.
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $23.03 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $51,567 |
| Break-even rate | ($51,567 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $94.38 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $94.38 ÷ 0.85 | $111.03 |
That is $111.03 per billable hour, 4.8 times the wage, and $1.42 less than the $112.46 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $29.70 in Wyoming, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $122.75.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $18.51, the rate only drops to $103.09.
At this wage, overhead is most of the price: $60 of every billed hour goes to it before anyone is paid. Spreading the same overhead over more billable hours, with a second person or less drive time, brings the rate down fastest.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Working as a handyman in Wyoming
- Running the business. Quotes, invoices, booking and your website in one place: how handyman businesses run on Koira.
- Getting found. The free Koira report checks how your business shows up in search and on maps against shops near you.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 49-9071, maintenance and repair workers, general, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: handyman salary by state.