Bill and Account Collectors in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,464
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$7,416
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,697
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
$41,880
Kept after tax
$34,464
Worth in national money
$37,697
State rank
45
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for bill and account collectors is on the low side in Idaho. The middle earner gets $41,880. That is 45 of 51 states, and about 10.95% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 476 occupations Idaho publishes, bill and account collectors lands at 369. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Idaho is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $41,880 the take-home is $34,464; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $37,697 would nationally. The average comes to $46,130, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For bill and account collectors, Idaho sits in the lower band at $41,880, ranking 45 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 10.95%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Idaho, this work ranks 369 of 476 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for bill and account collectors in Idaho, on $41,880, is $34,464 — equivalent to $37,697 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 $46,130 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Bill and Account Collectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,030 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,930 |
| This salary | $41,880 |
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 | $34,464 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,831 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$825 |
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 | $40,180 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$997 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of bill and account collectors in Idaho earn under $41,880 and half over. The published range runs $34,030 at the tenth percentile to $58,930 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,464 take-home in Idaho comes from $41,880. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 369 of 476.
- Two cautions on $37,697, the adjusted value of that $41,880 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 369 of 476 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for bill and account collectors in Idaho, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,030 to $58,930; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $34,464, from $41,880, assumes a single Idaho filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 369 of 476 locally, and the state ranks 45 of 51 for it.
- This $37,697 adjusted figure, worked from $41,880, 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 369 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 369 of 476 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $46,130, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,030 at the tenth percentile, $58,930 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Idaho is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $37,697 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Idaho adds its own income tax on top — which is why $34,464 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $46,130. 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 ($34,030 to $58,930) 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 $37,697 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 $34,464 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.