Employee Benefits in Cody and Powell, Wyoming
Cody · Powell · Meeteetse · Ralston — and the rest of Park County.
Group health and employee benefits for employers across Park 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 Park County
Park County runs on two hospitals, a national park gateway and a school-and-college payroll that does not move with the season. This is the local ground we cover before a Cody or Powell group ever goes out for quote.
Two hospitals, and a trauma designation three months old
Cody Regional Health and Powell Valley Healthcare are both critical access hospitals, each carrying 25 certified beds, and each runs a long-term care campus alongside the hospital — 94 certified beds in Cody, 100 in Powell, plus a 24-unit assisted living building at Powell Valley. In June 2026 the Wyoming Department of Health designated Cody Regional an Area Trauma Center, and Cody Regional describes itself as the highest-designated trauma facility in Wyoming Region 5, which covers Park, Big Horn, Hot Springs and Washakie counties.
Powell Valley Healthcare has been a Billings Clinic affiliate since January 2020, and its 2025 community report puts the organization at 470 jobs and $35.2 million in wages and salaries. Cody Regional co-owns First Flight of Wyoming, a 24/7 air medical program run with St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Montana, and its ambulance service covers more than 13,000 square miles across four counties with over 75 paramedics and EMTs. Two in-county hospitals and a Montana referral line decide which networks work here, so we confirm all of it before a plan goes on the table.
The season is the payroll
Park County carried 13,577 covered jobs in the fourth quarter of 2025, 10,142 of them private. Accommodation and food service is the largest private sector at 1,910, up 43 jobs on the year. Retail follows at 1,715 and private health care and social assistance at 1,563, with construction at 972 and manufacturing up 39 jobs to 454.
The federal side shows the same shape from the other direction: museum, historic site and park employment in the county ran 503 covered jobs in the quarter, up 25 on the year. The National Park Service projects the East Entrance road from Cody to Fishing Bridge open May 1 through October 31, 2026, and Yellowstone recorded 4,762,988 recreation visits in 2025. That calendar is what a Cody or Powell roster is built around, and variable-hour rules and measurement periods are where a plan meets it.
Two wage worlds on one census
The average covered wage in Park County ran $1,100 a week in the fourth quarter of 2025, $1,067 across private employers. Inside that average, food services and drinking places averaged $393 a week and accommodation $786, while mining averaged $2,215 and professional and technical services $1,716.
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 very differently on a $393 week than on a $2,215 week. So employee classes, waiting periods and contribution splits get set against the real census, the employee list a carrier quotes from, before anything goes out. That way every wage band on a Park County payroll has an option that fits it.
The twelve-month rosters underneath
Local government is the county’s largest single employment block at 2,513 covered jobs in the fourth quarter of 2025, up 57 on the year, and school district employment accounts for 1,189 of it. Northwest College in Powell reports 213 employees and 1,383 credit students as of fall 2025, with 600 of those students living in Park County.
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West — five museums, a research library and a Smithsonian affiliation — reported 227 people employed during 2024 and 168 volunteers on the Form 990 it publishes, and it runs daily hours from May 1 through September 15 before moving to a winter schedule. Cody Regional Health alone lists 23 locations across Cody, Powell, Meeteetse, Basin, Lovell, Thermopolis and Worland. A benefits plan that fits Park County has to hold the seasonal roster and the year-round one at the same time.
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Sources: Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, fourth quarter 2025, Table 19 — Park County; Wyoming Department of Health trauma center designations; Cody Regional Health; Powell Valley Healthcare 2025 Community Report; CMS Provider of Services and nursing home data; National Park Service, Yellowstone park roads and 2025 visitation; Northwest College institutional profile; Buffalo Bill Memorial Association Form 990 — all read September 6 and 7, 2026.
