- The middle half earn between $15.59 and $20.96 an hour.
- Wyoming ranks 27th of the 50 states and DC for median pay in this trade.
- Wyoming pays more than 3 of its 6 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 4,760 janitors on payrolls in Wyoming.
- At the state median wage, a commercial cleaning company needs to bill about $101.02 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Janitor pay in Wyoming, bottom to top
BLS counts janitors and cleaners together, outside of maids and housekeeping. Office cleaning crews and school custodians are in this group.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $13.90 | $28,910 | $13.77 |
| 25th percentile | $15.59 | $32,420 | $15.50 |
| Median | $17.33 | $36,050 | $17.71 |
| 75th percentile | $20.96 | $43,590 | $21.18 |
| 90th percentile | $22.26 | $46,300 | $24.17 |
| Average (mean) | $18.04 | $37,530 | $18.64 |
Pay is bunched up in Wyoming. The top tenth earn $22.26 an hour or more, about 1.6 times the $13.90 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 1.8 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
The floor is higher than nationally ($13.90 against $13.77) but the ceiling is lower ($22.26 against $24.17), which squeezes pay toward the middle.
The average, $18.04, is close to the median, so pay sits fairly evenly around the middle.
How Wyoming compares with other states
Over a full year the gap to the national median is small: $36,050 in Wyoming against $36,840 nationally, $790 less.
In the state ranking, Wyoming sits 27th, between Idaho ($17.36) and New Mexico ($17.32). Michigan has exactly the same median, $17.33, so the two share that place. The range runs from $13.64 in Mississippi to $21.91 in Massachusetts.
Against its neighboring states, Wyoming is in the middle: Colorado, Idaho and Montana pay more, and Nebraska, South Dakota and Utah pay less.
How many janitors work in Wyoming
Wyoming has one of the smaller workforces in the trade: 4,760 janitors on payrolls, 0.2% of the 2,209,760 nationwide.
That is 17.0 of every 1,000 jobs in Wyoming, close to the trade's share of jobs nationally.
What a commercial cleaning company in Wyoming should charge
Say you run a commercial cleaning company in Wyoming and pay the state median of $17.33 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 | $17.33 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $38,804 |
| Break-even rate | ($38,804 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $85.87 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $85.87 ÷ 0.85 | $101.02 |
That is $101.02 per billable hour, 5.8 times the wage, and almost the same as the $101.69 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $20.96 in Wyoming, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $107.40.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $15.59, the rate only drops to $97.97.
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 janitor in Wyoming
- Running the business. Quotes, invoices, booking and your website in one place: how cleaning companies 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 37-2011, janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners, 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: janitor salary by state.