Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,588
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$9,452
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,395
Idaho costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Idaho — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$50,040
Kept after tax
$40,588
Worth in national money
$44,395
State rank
36
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Idaho. The middle earner gets $50,040. That is 36 of 50 states, and about 18.69% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 476 occupations Idaho reports figures for, this is number 278.
- Idaho is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $50,040 the take-home is $40,588; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $44,395 would nationally. The average comes to $57,960, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors, Idaho sits in the lower band at $50,040, ranking 36 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 18.69%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In Idaho's occupational distribution, adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors sits at 278 of 476 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Post-tax income for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors in Idaho, on $50,040, is $40,588 — equivalent to $44,395 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $57,960 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,260 |
| This salary | $50,040 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Idaho | $40,588 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,387 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$776 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $47,801 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$938 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Idaho earn less than $50,040. The published range is $43,740 up to $77,260, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Idaho's $40,588, worked from $50,040. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 278 of 476.
- Two cautions on $44,395, the adjusted value of that $50,040 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Idaho. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 278 of 476 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors in Idaho the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,740 to $77,260. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Idaho take-home of $40,588, on $50,040 for work ranking 278 of 476 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 278 of 476 in the state.
- This $44,395 adjusted figure, worked from $50,040, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 278 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 278 of 476 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $57,960 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $43,740 at the tenth percentile, $77,260 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Idaho sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $44,395 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Idaho's own levy, $40,588 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Idaho is $57,960. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($43,740 to $77,260) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Idaho rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Idaho's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $44,395 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $40,588 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Idaho income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.