Broadcast Technicians in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,603
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$8,127
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,036
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
$44,730
Kept after tax
$36,603
Worth in national money
$40,036
State rank
33
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Idaho pays broadcast technicians a middle wage of $44,730, 33 of 47 states and about 24.91% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Idaho, this sits in the middle: 345 of 476 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Idaho does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $44,730 you keep $36,603, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $40,036 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $54,850, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Idaho's $44,730 median for broadcast technicians places it 33 of 47 states, about 24.91% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Broadcast technicians ranks 345 of 476 occupations in Idaho by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and Idaho income tax, retained pay for broadcast technicians on $44,730 is $36,603. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $40,036 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $54,850 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Broadcast Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $24,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,730 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,990 |
| This salary | $44,730 |
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 | $36,603 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,121 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$808 |
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 | $42,842 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$977 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $44,730 as a midpoint for Idaho, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $24,680 and the ninetieth is $109,990 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $36,603 take-home in Idaho comes from $44,730. 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 345 of 476.
- One number stands for prices across all of Idaho, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $40,036, the adjusted value of that $44,730 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 345 of 476 in the state.
- The Idaho median of $44,730 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $24,680 to $109,990. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $36,603, from $44,730, 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 345 of 476 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 47 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Idaho, so $40,036 — the adjusted value of that $44,730 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 345 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 $54,850, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $24,680, the highest tenth $109,990, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $40,036 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, $36,603 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $54,850. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($24,680) and the ninetieth ($109,990) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $40,036 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 $36,603 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.