Child, Family, and School Social Workers in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,943
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$11,897
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,440
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
$59,840
Kept after tax
$47,943
Worth in national money
$52,440
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Idaho pays this job around $59,840 at the midpoint, 22 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Idaho, this sits in the middle: 211 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 $59,840 you keep $47,943, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $52,440 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $59,900, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For child, family, and school social workers the Idaho median is $59,840, ranking 22 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Child, family, and school social workers ranks 211 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 child, family, and school social workers on $59,840 is $47,943. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $52,440 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 $59,900 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Child, Family, and School Social Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,650 |
| This salary | $59,840 |
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 | $47,943 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,261 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$717 |
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 | $56,955 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$868 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,840 as a midpoint for Idaho, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,990 and the ninetieth is $81,650 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Idaho's $47,943, worked from $59,840. 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 211 of 476.
- One number stands for prices across all of Idaho, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $52,440, the adjusted value of that $59,840 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 211 of 476 in the state.
- The Idaho median of $59,840 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,990 to $81,650. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Idaho take-home of $47,943, on $59,840 for work ranking 211 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 211 of 476 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Idaho, so $52,440 — the adjusted value of that $59,840 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 211 of 476 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,990, the highest tenth $81,650, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $52,440 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 $47,943 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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,990) and the ninetieth ($81,650) 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 $52,440 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 $47,943 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.