Wyo. Stat. § 27-4-101 (2026)

payment; agricultural operations exempt; payment in case of
labor dispute or temporary layoff.

     (a) Every person, firm or corporation, engaged in the
operation of any railroad, mine, refinery, and work incidental
to prospecting for, or the production of, oil and gas, or other
factory, mill or workshop, within the state of Wyoming, shall,
on or before the first day of each month, pay their employees
the wages earned by them during the first half of the preceding
month ending with the fifteenth day of the month, and on or
before the fifteenth day of each month pay their employees the
wages earned by them during the last half of the preceding
month; provided, however, that if at any time of payment any
employee shall be absent from his or her regular place of labor,
and shall not receive his or her wages, at that time due and
owing, through a duly authorized representative, he or she shall
be entitled to payment at any time thereafter upon demand on the
proper paymaster or at the place where wages are usually paid;
provided, further, that if the first or the fifteenth of the
month occurs on a day which is not a working day, that the last
preceding working day shall be the payday, for all personnel who
are regularly paid at one (1) location, provided, every employer
shall establish and maintain regular paydays as herein provided
and shall post and maintain copies of this law printed in plain
type in at least two (2) conspicuous places where the notices
can be seen by the employees.

     (b) Every employer shall, at the time of each payment of
wages, furnish each of his employees with a detachable part of
the check, draft or voucher, paying the employees' wages, giving
an itemized statement in writing showing all deductions made
from such wages. If the employer does not make his payroll
payments in the aforementioned manner, then he shall provide
such itemized statement on a slip attached to such payment.
Nothing in W.S. 27-4-101 through 27-4-103 shall be construed to
prohibit an employer from depositing wages due or to become due
or an advance on wages to be earned, in an account in any bank,
savings and loan association, credit union or other financial
institution authorized by the United States or one (1) of the
several states to receive deposits in the United States if the
employee has voluntarily authorized such deposit.

     (c) Agricultural operations shall be exempt from the
provisions provided herein.

     (d) When work of any employee is suspended as a result of
a labor dispute, or when an employee for any reason whatsoever
is temporarily laid off, the employer shall pay in full to such
employee on the next regular payday, either through the regular
pay channels or by mail if requested by the employee, wages
earned to the time of suspension or layoff.