Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: every figure Clear Money Guide holds about Wyoming, on one page, each one copied from a dataset that cites its own statute or agency. Built for reporters on deadline — take any line, follow the link for the source.
What stands out about Wyoming
These are the figures where Wyoming differs most from the rest of the country — selected by counting how many jurisdictions share each value, not by editorial preference.
- Five year total: $400 — the only jurisdiction of the 48 we have data for
- Grace period days: 30 days (or, at the insurer’s option, one month of not less than 30 days) — one of only 2 of 47
- Deposit cap: none — one of only 6 of 37
- Has law: No — one of only 8 of 51
What dying costs here
- Small estate limit: 400000
- Small estate scope: covers_real
Source and full detail: the cost-of-dying index. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Estate and property law status
- Authorized: yes
- Statute or act: Wyoming Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts, Wyo. Stat. 34-26-301 et seq., enacted S.F. 0029 (2021)
- Effective date: 2021-07-01
- Conditions: Wyoming authorizes BOTH Remote Online Notarization (RON) and Remote Ink Notarization (RIN) for Wyoming-commissioned notaries under the same 2021 act.
- Association name: Wyoming Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
- Death benefit limit: $300,000
- Cash surrender limit: $100,000
- Annuity limit: $250,000
- Aggregate limit: $500,000
- Statute citation: Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 26-42-103(d) (Coverage and limitations)
- Grace period days: 30 days (or, at the insurer’s option, one month of not less than 30 days)
- Trigger: the premium due date specified in the policy
- Coverage during grace: the policy continues in full force; whether or not interest is charged, the amount of any premium due or overdue, together with interest and any deferred installment of the annual premium, may be deducted from the policy proceeds
- Variations: four weeks for industrial life insurance policies whose premiums are payable more frequently than monthly. Separately: group life (W.S. Sec. 26-17-111) is 31 days, and disability/health policies (W.S. Sec. 26-18-107) use a tiered 7/10/31-day formula
Source and full detail: notary rules by state · guaranty association limits · life insurance free-look periods · life insurance grace periods. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Working and earning here
- Quit deadline: Within 5 working days of separation, or on the next regular payday, whichever is earlier
- Fired deadline: Within 5 working days of separation, or on the next regular payday, whichever is earlier
- Statute citation: Wyo. Stat. 27-4-104
- Has law: No
- Disclosure trigger: none
- Salary history ban: No
- Local ordinances: none identified
- Contested: No
Source and full detail: final paycheck laws by state · pay transparency laws by state · paid family leave by state · the convenience-of-the-employer rule. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Renting here
- Deposit cap: none
- Return deadline: 30 days after termination or 15 days after receipt of the renter’s new mailing address, whichever is LATER (+30 days if there is damage)
- Interest required: no
- Statute citation: Wyo. Stat. § 1-21-1208 (deductions, itemization, time limits, recovery); § 1-21-1207 (nonrefundable deposit disclosure); § 1-21-1201 (definitions/scope)
Source and full detail: security deposit law by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Starting a business here
- Formation fee: $100
- Annual report: $60 minimum, or $0.0002 per dollar of assets located and employed in Wyoming, whichever is greater
- Franchise tax: none separate from the annual report license tax
- Publication requirement: none
- Expedite options: $1,400 same business day; $700 next business day
- Statute citation: W.S. 17-29-108 (LLC name); W.S. 17-16-1630 (annual report license tax computation, applied to LLCs); WY SOS Annual Report License Tax Rules
- Five year total: $400
Source and full detail: LLC cost by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Tax treatment here
- Has law: No
- Treatment: none
- Preferential mechanism: none
Source and full detail: capital gains tax by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
For journalists: how to cite this
Clear Money Guide, Wyoming Money Statistics 2026. https://clearmoneyguide.com/state-money-statistics/wyoming/. Every figure on this page is copied from a Clear Money Guide dataset that states its own primary source and the date it was read — follow the section links for the statute or agency behind any number. Free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
What this sheet does and does not contain
This sheet aggregates; it does not research. Every figure is copied from the owning page linked in each section, and a figure we do not own is simply absent — not estimated, not inferred from a neighbouring state. That is why sheets differ in length: this one states 38 figures, and a state where we hold less will show fewer. A short sheet means we have less, not that the state has less.
Statutory law changes. Each linked owner page carries the date its figures were read; check there before relying on anything here. See also Wyoming financial adviser statistics and all 51 state money sheets.
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