Childcare Costs in Wyoming (2024): What Full-Time Care Really Costs, by Source
Wyoming’s child care prices in this guide come from Child Care Aware of America’s “Child Care in America: 2024 Affordability Analysis” report, based on its January 2025 survey of state Child Care Resource and Referral networks, broken out by child age and by center-based versus family child care settings. Wyoming’s figures were asterisked in that report, meaning they were backfilled from an older state Market Rate Survey rather than drawn from the current CCR&R survey, so these numbers should be treated as less current than states with fresh 2025 data.
Average annual price of full-time child care in Wyoming
| Age group | Center-based care | Family child care (home-based) |
|---|---|---|
| Infant | $12,784 · $1,065/mo | $10,704 · $892/mo |
| Toddler | $11,897 · $991/mo | $10,278 · $856/mo |
| 4-Year-Old | $11,229 · $936/mo | $9,747 · $812/mo |
| Before/After School | $6,249 · $521/mo | $6,080 · $507/mo |
| Full-Time Summer | $2,321 · $193/mo | $2,258 · $188/mo |
Wyoming’s prices in this table are flagged by Child Care Aware of America as backfilled from an older state Market Rate Survey, not the current 2025 CCR&R survey — treat them as less current than states without this flag. Source: Child Care Aware of America, Tables I & II, “Child Care in America: 2024 Affordability Analysis.” A cell reading “Not reported” means CCAoA did not publish a price for that age group and setting in this state — it is not zero and was not estimated.
What this actually means for a family’s budget
Center-based infant care in Wyoming costs $12,784 a year. For a family with two children in center-based care, the combined annual price of $24,013 runs 106.72 percent more than the state’s annualized rent and 18.34 percent more than its annualized mortgage payment. Center-based infant care alone costs 83.75 percent more than the average in-state public college tuition and fees. That $12,784 infant price works out to 11.4 percent of Wyoming’s married-couple median income, but 38.4 percent of its single-parent median income.
National context
This is the flat 2023 U.S. national average annual wage for childcare workers (BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, occupation code 39-9011), not a Wyoming-specific figure. CCAoA’s report applies this single national number when ranking every state’s childcare-workforce affordability, so it is NOT evidence about Wyoming wages specifically. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023 Annual Mean Wage: Childcare Workers, bls.gov/oes/current/oes399011.htm)
What we don’t have for Wyoming
This page shows a single statewide price for Wyoming, which can hide real differences between counties. The U.S. Department of Labor’s National Database of Childcare Prices would provide county-level prices instead of one statewide figure and is generally the stronger source for local precision, but it could not be accessed for this page. Until that data is added, the figures here reflect statewide averages only.
How we built this page
Every figure above comes from Child Care Aware of America’s published “Child Care in America: 2024 Affordability Analysis” report (Tables I, II, III, XI, and XII), which in turn cites U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 data for income and rent/mortgage figures, and BLS 2023 data for the national childcare-worker wage figure. Reused here under CCAoA’s own republishing terms, which require visible citation to Child Care Aware of America and a link to childcareaware.org — both are provided throughout this page.
- Child Care Aware of America, “Child Care in America: 2024 Affordability Analysis”. Prices from CCAoA’s January 2025 survey of Child Care Resource & Referral State Networks.
- U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023, Table B19126 (income) and related housing-cost tables.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023 Annual Mean Wage: Childcare Workers (occupation code 39-9011).
