How Much Does a Home Renovation Cost in Wyoming in 2026
Across a Mountain-region sample that names no Wyoming city, the Remodeling 2025 Cost vs. Value Report (www.costvsvalue.com) prices a midrange minor kitchen job at $28,490. Wyoming carpenters’ median wage in May 2025 was $27.33 an hour, against $29.12 nationally (BLS). Anyone you pay to wire the remodel needs a state electrical license (W.S. 35-9-123).
Kitchen and bath numbers borrowed from Boise, Reno and Salt Lake City
Zonda Media publishes no Wyoming line. Its Mountain page lists eight sample markets: Boise and Idaho Falls, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Reno, Phoenix and Tucson, and Albuquerque. Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie and Jackson are not among them, so read the figures as a regional yardstick.
That $28,490 is the eight-market average for what the report calls its midrange minor kitchen remodel, and the report’s resale estimate for it equals 110.3 percent of that cost. Over all 119 markets the same kitchen averages $28,458, with 113 percent recouped. A midrange bath in the Mountain group costs $24,920 and gets back 69.4 percent; the U.S. pair is $26,138 and 80 percent. Room size and finish level are not stated on the captured report pages.
© 2025 Zonda Media, a Delaware Corporation. Complete data from the Remodeling 2025 Cost vs. Value Report can be downloaded free at www.costvsvalue.com.
What Wyoming carpenters earn
BLS counted 2,260 carpenters on Wyoming payrolls in May 2025, at a mean of $28.53 an hour ($59,350 a year) and a median of $27.33 ($56,850). Nationally the mean was $31.55 ($65,630), the median $29.12 ($60,580). Self-employed carpenters are outside the survey. Pay is one input to a bid and does not convert into a kitchen price.
W.S. 35-9-123: who installs the kitchen circuits
The statute opens: “Licensed electrical contractors employing licensed master or journeymen electricians, or registered apprentice electricians supervised by a licensed master or journeyman electrician shall install all electrical equipment.” Nine waivers follow, among them the owner’s own work, utilities, farms or ranches “of forty (40) acres or more on deeded land,” and licensed low voltage and limited contractors within their scope (full list: 35-9-123(a)(i)–(ix)). No waiver excuses anyone “from meeting all other code requirements.”
The owner waiver covers “Property owned or leased by a person when the person, his partner or a major stockholder of a family corporation is installing the equipment and the property is not for immediate resale.” It stops at you. Subsection (b): “Exceptions shall not apply to anyone who contracts or subcontracts to or for any exempt person, partnership or corporation.” A remodeler adding circuits under your contract therefore needs a licensed electrical contractor for that work. Check licenses on the fire marshal’s public portal and look up.
The state wiring permit
W.S. 35-9-120(e) requires an electrical wiring permit in remodeling “if the remodeling requires a public utility to connect or disconnect and restore electrical power,” and the utility may not energize that service without it, apart from emergencies it must report. The permit rule does not apply where a city or county holds local electrical enforcement under 35-9-121(a), or to installations exempt under 35-9-123(a)(ii) through (v); the owner waiver, (a)(i), is not in that list. The department’s wiring permits page (read September 29, 2026) charges $50.00 per permit, issued online only.
Local licensing and local inspection
The Secretary of State’s checklist for new businesses warns that “some cities and counties” impose “special permitting/licensing requirements,” and points firms to county and city clerks. Inspection authority is also delegated: under W.S. 35-9-121(a) the state fire marshal gives “complete authority to municipalities and counties which apply to enforce and interpret local or state fire, building, existing building standards or electrical safety standards.” Your city or county building office can say whether it holds that authority.
Houses built before 1978: EPA runs the lead rule here
Wyoming is not on EPA’s list of states authorized to run their own Renovation, Repair and Painting program, so 40 CFR 745 subpart E applies as written. It reaches “all renovations performed for compensation in target housing,” meaning pre-1978 housing “except housing for the elderly or persons with disabilities or any 0-bedroom dwelling (unless any child who is less than 6 years of age resides or is expected to reside in such housing).” The paid firm needs EPA certification (745.81(a)(2)(ii)) and gives owners and occupants the Renovate Right pamphlet (745.81(b)).
Section 745.82(a) exempts jobs where the affected components are shown lead-free by a certified inspector’s or risk assessor’s written determination that the firm has a copy of, a certified renovator’s test of each affected component with an EPA-recognized test kit used according to the kit maker’s instructions, or an EPA-recognized lab’s analysis of paint-chip samples a certified renovator collected from each affected painted component. Minor repair and maintenance falls outside the rule: up to 6 square feet of disturbed paint per room indoors or 20 square feet outdoors, with none of the practices barred by 745.85(a)(3), no window replacement and no demolition of painted surface areas. Jobs other than emergency renovations done in the same room within the same 30 days count as one job. Emergency renovations get partial relief under 745.82(b).
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I wire my own kitchen in Wyoming?
Yes, on property you own or lease that is not for immediate resale (W.S. 35-9-123(a)(i)). Code still applies, and a remodel that needs the utility to cut and restore power still needs a wiring permit unless your city or county enforces electrical code itself.
Does a Wyoming remodeler need EPA lead certification?
For paid work that disturbs paint in pre-1978 target housing, yes, unless a 745.82(a) lead-free exception or the minor-repair limits apply. EPA, not a state agency, certifies firms for Wyoming.
Is there still a federal tax credit for energy upgrades in a 2026 remodel?
Not under 26 U.S.C. §25C, the energy efficient home improvement credit. Section 25C(i), as amended by Pub. L. 119-21 on July 4, 2025, says it “shall not apply with respect to any property placed in service after December 31, 2025.”