New grad RN jobs and nurse residency programs in Wyoming

A quarter of Wyoming RNs earn less than $37.45 an hour ($77,890 a year) and half earn more than $40.27. First-year offers tend to sit near the lower figure, since hospital pay scales usually rise with experience.

That puts Wyoming 35th of the 50 states and DC for median RN pay.

Pay is bunched together in Wyoming: only $2.82 an hour separates the 25th percentile from the median, a narrower gap than in most states.

The Cheyenne area employs 1,130 RNs, about 21% of the state's total.

The Wyoming State Board of Nursing licenses RNs in Wyoming.

Wyoming is in the Nurse Licensure Compact. If Wyoming is your primary state of residence, the license you earn after the NCLEX can be multistate, valid in every compact state. Nurses who live in another compact state can work in Wyoming on their home state's multistate license.

Every one of its neighboring states is in the compact too, so one license covers the whole region.

Yes, with conditions. Wyoming's board may issue a graduate temporary permit to exam applicants. You practice under appropriate direction and supervision, and the permit ends if you do not pass your first national exam.

Source: Wyoming Board of Nursing rules, chapter 2, section 7, read October 2026. The permit makes it legal; whether you can use it depends on the employer, since not every hospital starts graduate nurses before they are licensed. Ask the recruiter.

29 of the 50 states and DC allow something like this, each with its own limits. See every state's rule.

Wyoming had one of the highest first-time NCLEX-RN pass rates in the country in 2025: 90.8% of the 304 U.S.-educated candidates who tested for a Wyoming license passed, 4.1 points above the national rate of 86.7%.

Set against the 5 new-grad programs we track here, that is about 61 new test takers per program, fewer than the national figure of about 114.

The exam is the same everywhere; the rate tells you about the graduates who tested here, not about your own chances. See pass rates in every state.

Among its neighboring states, Colorado both pays RNs the most (a median of $100,260) and has the most new-grad programs on our list (30).