Void, with listed exceptions

Non-compete law in Wyoming

For contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2025, Wyoming voids any covenant not to compete that restricts a person's right to receive compensation for skilled or unskilled labor, except covenants in a sale of a business or its assets, covenants to the extent they protect trade secrets, a sliding-scale recovery of relocation, education and training costs, and covenants with executive and management personnel and their professional staff. A separate subsection voids physician-to-physician noncompetes. Earlier contracts are untouched.

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Employee non-competes
Only within the statute's conditions
Pay floor
None in the statute

Exceptions and special rules

  • Sale of a business: the statute allows a non-compete given by a seller.
  • Covenant contained in a contract for the purchase and sale of a business or the assets of a business (W.S. 1-23-108(a)(i))
  • Covenant not to compete to the extent it provides for protection of trade secrets as defined by W.S. 6-3-501(a)(xi) ((a)(ii))
  • Recovery of relocation, education and training expense: up to 100% if the employee served under 2 years, up to 66% for 2 to under 3 years, up to 33% for 3 to under 4 years ((a)(iii)); nothing is stated for 4 years or more
  • Executive and management personnel and officers and employees who constitute professional staff to executive and management personnel ((a)(iv)); § 1-23-108 does not define these terms
  • Physician. A covenant not to compete in an employment, partnership or corporate agreement between physicians that restricts the right to practice medicine (W.S. 33-26-102(a)(xi)) after termination of the employment, partnership or corporate affiliation is void; all other enforceable provisions of the agreement stay enforceable. After termination or voiding, the physician may disclose continuing practice and new contact information to a patient with a rare disorder (as defined by the national organization for rare disorders or successor) whom the physician treated before termination, without liability to either party to the prior agreement. (W.S. 1-23-108(b)-(c))

Non-solicitation clauses

Not mentioned in the text. The ban covers a 'covenant not to compete that restricts the right of any person to receive compensation for performance of skilled or unskilled labor'; whether a customer or employee non-solicit is within that wording is not answered by the statute.

Contracts naming another state's law

None in § 1-23-108 (no choice-of-law or forum rule).

Remedies

No remedy stated. The section's caption includes 'unlawful intimidation', but the enacted text contains no subsection on it.

Which agreements it covers

Applies to contracts entered into on and after 2025-07-01; does not alter, amend or impair any contract entered into before 2025-07-01 (2025 Enrolled Act 87, section 2).

Recent changes

  • 2026-05-09. No change found: the Legislature's May 2026 compilation of Title 1 prints § 1-23-108 identically, and none of the 335 bills in the 2026 budget session's bill list has a title or digest referring to it (title-level scan). Source
  • 2025-07-01. SF0107 (Enrolled Act No. 87; Wyoming 2025 Session Laws ch. 170) created W.S. 1-23-108; signed 2025-03-19, effective 2025-07-01 per the Legislature's bill record. Source

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