Employee Benefits in Casper, Wyoming
Casper · Mills · Evansville · Bar Nunn — and the rest of Natrona County.
Group health and employee benefits for employers across Natrona County. Multiple carriers compared, networks checked against the hospitals your people actually use, and one named team that stays with you through the year.
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Benefits built around Natrona County
Natrona County runs on health care, freight and energy support, and most Casper payrolls carry more than one of those at the same time. This is the local ground we cover before a Casper group ever goes out for quote.
Wyoming’s largest hospital is in town
Banner Wyoming Medical Center is Wyoming’s largest hospital, with 249 beds across two campuses and Level II trauma care, and it is Casper’s only full-service non-profit hospital. Emergency services, heart care, neurological care and women and infant services are all carried here.
In January 2026 its East Campus reopened as a specialty hospital focused on orthopedics: four rebuilt operating rooms, 37 inpatient beds, an on-site laboratory holding blood products, full imaging, a sleep lab and a walk-in clinic, after a $6 million renovation. Total joint replacement is one of the most common elective procedures in the country, and in Casper it now happens here. Network status for both campuses is one of the first things we confirm.
Health care leads, freight is moving fastest
Natrona County carried 40,279 covered jobs in the fourth quarter of 2025, 34,616 of them private. Health care and social assistance is the largest private sector at 6,313, up from 6,174 a year earlier. Retail follows at 4,673 and accommodation and food service at 4,036, with local government at 4,269.
Transportation and warehousing grew fastest, rising to 2,239 from 1,925 — 314 jobs in a year, up 16.3% — while pipeline transportation more than doubled to 283. Wholesale trade holds 2,228 and mining support activities 1,577. That is the layer that makes Casper the distribution hub for central Wyoming, and it is why so many local rosters mix field crews, drivers and warehouse staff with office employees.
One census, two wage worlds
The average covered wage in Natrona County ran $1,321 a week in the fourth quarter of 2025. Mining, quarrying and oil and gas averaged $2,343 a week. Retail averaged $779.
A spread that wide shapes plan design. The ACA affordability test — the share of an employee’s own pay they can be asked to put toward single coverage — lands differently on a $779 week than on a $2,343 week. So employee classes and contribution splits get set against the real census, the employee list a carrier quotes from, before anything goes out. That way each wage band on a Casper payroll has an option that fits it.
Where children’s care connects
Children’s Hospital Colorado, working with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, provides neonatal intensive care coverage to 14 partner NICUs across Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. Banner Wyoming Medical Center in Casper is one of those partner NICUs.
For an employer with young families on the census, that referral line is worth confirming inside a network before open enrollment, alongside the Casper campuses themselves. We check both, and we map where specialty care routes from Casper, so the whole picture is on the table while you are still choosing a plan.
Casper · Mills · Evansville · Bar Nunn · Midwest · Edgerton · Alcova · Natrona
Sources: Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, fourth quarter 2025, Table 17 — Natrona County; Banner Health newsroom, “Banner Wyoming Medical Center reopening East Campus as specialty hospital,” November 18, 2025; Children’s Hospital Colorado pediatric affiliations — all read September 6, 2026.
