Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,992
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$24,868
25.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,932
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
$98,860
Kept after tax
$73,992
Worth in national money
$80,932
State rank
35
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Idaho is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $98,860, ranking 35 of 45 states — about 14.15% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Idaho. It ranks 55 out of 476 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $98,860 you keep $73,992 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $80,932 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $113,290, since top earners drag the number up.
- Idaho ranks 35 of 45 for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors, with a median of $98,860 — about 14.15% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Within Idaho, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 55 of 476 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in Idaho is $73,992 after the full tax stack, from $98,860. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $80,932 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $113,290 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $86,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $98,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $163,050 |
| This salary | $98,860 |
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 | $73,992 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,378 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$275 |
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 | $92,625 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$380 |
| 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 $98,860. The published range is $86,700 up to $163,050, 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 $73,992, worked from $98,860. 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 55 of 476.
- Two cautions on $80,932, the adjusted value of that $98,860 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 55 of 476 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Idaho the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $86,700 to $163,050. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Idaho take-home of $73,992, on $98,860 for work ranking 55 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 55 of 476 in the state.
- This $80,932 adjusted figure, worked from $98,860, 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 55 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 55 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 $113,290 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $86,700, the highest tenth $163,050, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $80,932.
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, $73,992 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 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 $113,290. 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 ($86,700) and the ninetieth ($163,050) 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 $80,932 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 $73,992 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.