Dietetic Technicians in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$27,515
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$5,105
15.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,095
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
$32,620
Kept after tax
$27,515
Worth in national money
$30,095
State rank
38
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for dietetic technicians is on the low side in Idaho. The middle earner gets $32,620. That is 38 of 45 states, and about 13.34% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 476 occupations Idaho publishes, dietetic technicians lands at 457. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $32,620 you keep $27,515 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $30,095 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $36,880, since top earners drag the number up.
- For dietetic technicians, Idaho sits in the lower band at $32,620, ranking 38 of 45 and trailing the national median by about 13.34%. 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 457 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.
- Retained pay in Idaho is $27,515 after the full tax stack, from $32,620. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $30,095 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $36,880 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Dietetic Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $32,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,450 |
| This salary | $32,620 |
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 | $27,515 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $28,390 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$880 |
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 | $31,530 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,064 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $32,620 as a midpoint for Idaho, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,960 and the ninetieth is $50,450 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $27,515 take-home in Idaho comes from $32,620. 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 457 of 476.
- Two cautions on $30,095, the adjusted value of that $32,620 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 457 of 476 locally.
- The Idaho median of $32,620 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,960 to $50,450. 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 $27,515, from $32,620, 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 457 of 476 locally, and the state ranks 38 of 45 for it.
- This $30,095 adjusted figure, worked from $32,620, 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 457 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 457 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 $36,880, 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 — $28,960 at the tenth percentile, $50,450 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 $30,095 in national terms.
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, $27,515 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $36,880. 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 ($28,960 to $50,450) 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 $30,095 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 $27,515 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.