Employee Benefits in Lander and Riverton, Wyoming
Lander · Riverton · Dubois · Shoshoni — and the rest of Fremont County.
Group health and employee benefits for employers across Fremont 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 Fremont County
Fremont County is a wide county with public payrolls at its center, a hospital system running two campuses, and a new hospital about to open in Riverton. This is the local ground we cover before a Lander or Riverton group ever goes out for quote.
A hospital is opening in Riverton
RiverPeak Health — the locally governed nonprofit that was named Riverton Medical District until October 2025 — started construction in December 2024 at 2505 North Federal Boulevard and says on its careers page that it is preparing for the hospital’s opening this winter. The published plan is 13 inpatient rooms including two ICU rooms and two labor, delivery and recovery rooms, two operating rooms, and an emergency department with five exam rooms and two trauma bays.
RiverPeak says the hospital will support 140 new jobs, serve 22,000 people in the greater Riverton area including the Wind River Reservation, and operate as a Billings Clinic affiliate rather than a Billings Clinic property. A new hospital changes networks, and networks change which plan is right. We track it, and we check every plan against what is actually open on the day your renewal lands.
SageWest runs one hospital across two campuses
SageWest Health Care operates campuses in Lander and Riverton under a single Medicare certification and has been a founding member of ScionHealth since December 2021. The Wyoming Department of Health designates both the Lander and the Riverton campus a Community Trauma Hospital at full status, and both run 24/7 emergency rooms.
Both campuses hold Chest Pain Accreditation from the American College of Cardiology, and SageWest is a Joint Commission certified Primary Stroke Center. PET/CT imaging launched at the Lander campus in August 2026, and the system runs an occupational health service called WorkWise alongside cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, women’s health and rehabilitation. Which campus does what is the first thing we map for a Fremont County census.
Public payrolls carry this county
Fremont County carried 15,425 covered jobs in the fourth quarter of 2025. Local government is the single largest block at 4,663, with school district employment at 2,169 and local government health care and social assistance at 712 — up 100 jobs, 16.3%, on the year. State government adds 633, including 194 in nursing and residential care at the Wyoming Life Resource Center in Lander, and federal employment adds 379.
On the private side, retail leads at 1,880, health care and social assistance follows at 1,643, and accommodation and food service at 1,409. Mining is small at 485 but pays the most, averaging $2,222 a week against a county average of $1,085, and oil and gas extraction inside it grew 12.3% on the year. A roster mixed this way is where eligibility rules, waiting periods and contribution structure do most of the work in a plan.
Employers spread across a wide county
NOLS has been headquartered on Lincoln Street in Lander since 1965 and reported 1,223 individuals employed during the fiscal year ended August 2025, with $23.8 million in salaries, other compensation and benefits. Central Wyoming College runs its main campus in Riverton with sites in Lander, Dubois, Fort Washakie and Thermopolis, and is home to Wyoming PBS. Private educational services in the county carried 378 covered jobs.
The Wind River Indian Reservation lies inside the county, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs counts more than 3,900 enrolled Eastern Shoshone members and more than 8,600 enrolled Northern Arapaho members. Wind River Family and Community Health Care runs clinics and pharmacies at Arapahoe, Ethete and Riverton, and the Dubois Medical Clinic covers the northwest corner. All of those show up on a Fremont County census, and all of them get checked against a network before we recommend anything.
Lander · Riverton · Dubois · Shoshoni · Hudson · Pavillion · Fort Washakie · Ethete · Arapahoe · Crowheart
Sources: Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, fourth quarter 2025, Table 11 — Fremont County; RiverPeak Health; SageWest Health Care; Wyoming Department of Health trauma center designations; Wyoming Department of Health, Wyoming Life Resource Center; NOLS Form 990 for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025; Central Wyoming College; U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wind River Agency; Wind River Family and Community Health Care; Community Health Center of Central Wyoming — all read September 6 and 7, 2026.
