--- title: Wages - Wyoming Liberty Group - Wyoming Liberty Group description: Wyoming Liberty Group, a 501c3, founded in 2008 with the purpose of inviting citizens to prepare for informed, active and confident involvement in local and sta canonical_url: https://www.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/wages language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://www.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/wages. markdown-tokens: 624 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://www.wyliberty.org/blog-tags/wages. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. [![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-lg-trees.png)![Wyoming Liberty Group](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/2020/06/01/wy-logo-sm-trees.png)](https://www.wyliberty.org/) ![](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog_articles/1162/b2ap3_large_Cheyenne-Really-Good-for-Small-Businesses_Fig1.jpg) by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff On May 10 Wyoming News Now reported: According to Verizon, Cheyenne has been voted one of the best places nationwide to start a new business. Ranking in at #6, it is the only state capital to break the top 10. Sounds good, doesn't it? We all want Cheyenne to be a good place to start a business – in fact, we all want W... ![](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog_articles/1151/b2ap3_large_How-Wyoming-Compares-to-The-Surrounding-States-Fig1.jpg) by Wyoming Liberty Group Staff My previous work looked at state and local government wages in the state of Wyoming. On average, in the state of Wyoming, there is a wage premium of 23% in state government. This analysis uses wages data from the Bureau of Labor and Statics, that does not include benefits. Local government employees' wages are similar... ![](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/easyblog_articles/1126/b2ap3_large_Difference_Between_Ave_2017_Gov_Wages.jpg) by Philip Baron In 2017 Wyoming had 292 state and local government employees per 1,000 people working in the private sector (according to employment data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics). The state government made up 5.4%1 of the employment in the state in 2017. Local government made up 16.7% of the state's employment for the same year. Wha... ![logo white 002](https://www.wyliberty.org/images/general_art/logo_white_002.png) **Wyoming Liberty Group** P.O. Box 9 • Burns, WY 82053 Phone: (307) 632-7020