Employee Benefits in Star Valley, Wyoming
Afton · Thayne · Alpine · Star Valley Ranch — and the rest of Lincoln County.
Group health and employee benefits for employers across Lincoln 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 Star Valley
Afton, Thayne, Alpine and Star Valley Ranch sit in Lincoln County, and the benefits questions here repeat every year: a headcount that moves with the season, a hospital district that is one of the county’s largest employers, and rosters that reach across the Wyoming–Idaho line. Here is what we check before we put a plan in front of you.
Where Star Valley gets care
Star Valley Health runs emergency departments in both Afton and Alpine, each open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Afton emergency room functions as a level IV trauma center and reports care for more than 4,000 people a year. Urgent care runs Monday through Saturday in Afton and weekdays in Alpine.
Clinics, physical therapy and specialty care sit in Afton, Alpine and Thayne, including Mountain West Orthopedics, a spine clinic, a sleep lab, an oncology and infusion center, and a cardiac catheterization lab in Alpine. Further sites reach Cokeville, Evanston, Lyman and Diamondville.
For care that leaves the valley, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls describes itself as the largest medical facility serving Southeast Idaho, Western Wyoming and parts of Montana. We check a plan’s network against the Afton and Alpine sites and against that regional hospital before we recommend it.
Who Lincoln County employs
Lincoln County carried 7,326 covered jobs in 2025, at an average annual wage of $64,856. Construction is the largest private sector at 997 jobs, then retail trade at 884, accommodation and food services at 621, and mining, oil and gas at 565.
Health care and social assistance is larger than any of them once both halves are counted: 437 private jobs plus 747 in local government, which is where the hospital district sits. Local government schools add another 710.
One plan is being asked to fit a framing crew, a hotel front desk, a nurse and a teacher in the same year. That is a network and contribution question, and we work it before renewal rather than during it.
The season is part of the plan
Star Valley Health puts the valley’s population between 11,000 and 15,000 depending on the time of year. A swing that size shows up in payroll first.
For an employer it becomes three practical questions: which stretch of weeks you use to decide who counts as full-time, how long that decision holds once it is made, and when a new hire becomes eligible.
We set those windows first and choose the plan second, so eligibility is settled before open enrollment starts. A seasonal hiring spike then lands inside a rule you already wrote.
Rosters that cross the state line
Wyoming’s own commuting count found 7,085 Lincoln County residents with wage records. 5,182 worked inside the county and 1,903 worked in another county — 1,129 of those in Teton County. That is close to one in six working residents.
The traffic runs both ways. Of the 6,481 people working in Lincoln County, 1,299 lived somewhere else, including 675 who lived outside Wyoming.
We are licensed in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, California and Texas, so a roster spread across the state line is something we design for at the start.
Afton · Thayne · Alpine · Star Valley Ranch · Etna · Freedom · Grover · Smoot · Fairview · Bedford · Auburn · Osmond · Turnerville
Sources: Star Valley Health — Locations, About and Emergency Room pages, read September 6, 2026. Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center — About Us, read September 6, 2026. Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Research & Planning — QCEW 2025 Annual Data, Table 16, Lincoln County, extract July 2026, read September 6, 2026. Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, Research & Planning — Wyoming Intercounty Commuting Report 2018Q1, Tables 12A and 12B, read September 6, 2026.
