Jobs for Felons in Wyoming

As far as we can find, Wyoming has no ban-the-box law for public or private employers, and nothing in the 2025 or 2026 session laws added one. An employer can ask about your record on the application, so plan your answer before you apply.

Under federal law, a background check company can report a conviction no matter how old it is. Arrests that did not lead to a conviction generally drop off private reports after seven years (the limit does not apply to jobs paying $75,000 a year or more). We found no Wyoming law that shortens that for convictions.

At the state level, Wyoming's Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) says adult arrests stay on your record unless they are expunged. Expungement hides the record at DCI from everyone except criminal justice agencies, and the court seals its file.

You can petition to expunge a nonviolent felony (or felonies from the same incident) 10 years after you finish the sentence and probation, complete any court program, and pay restitution in full, if you have no other felony. The filing fee is $300, and you get only one felony expungement. It also restores the rights you lost because of that conviction.

Some felonies are excluded: violent felonies, most felonies involving a gun (game-and-fish felonies aside), sexual assault offenses, registry offenses, and a list of other specific crimes. Check the list with legal aid.

You can petition 5 years after you finish the sentence, probation and any court program (1 year for a status offense), if no gun was involved. The fee is $100, and it is also one time only.

For any conviction expungement, the judge must find that you do not pose a “substantial danger” to yourself, a victim or society. The prosecutor and victims get notice and can object, which leads to a hearing. Bring proof of the life you have built since.

If there was no conviction, no charge was filed, or everything was dismissed (and there was no deferred-prosecution disposition), you can petition 180 days after the arrest or dismissal to expunge it. There is no filing fee. After that you can answer any question “as though the arrest, or charge or charges did not occur.”

A Wyoming licensing board that considers convictions cannot consider ones that do not affect the job. It also cannot look at a conviction more than 20 years old, unless you finished the sentence within the last 10 years or the conviction relates to the job. Health boards can always treat violent or sexual crimes as relevant.

You can ask a board at any time whether your convictions will keep you from getting licensed. The fee cannot be more than the board's cost, and the answer is not binding on the board.

Federal EEOC guidance from 2012 warns employers that blanket “no felons” policies can violate Title VII, but since April 2025 a federal executive order has told agencies to deprioritize this kind of case. We found no Wyoming law limiting private employers, so your leverage is expungement, the licensing rules, and picking the right employer.