Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,143
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$6,977
17.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,252
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
$40,120
Kept after tax
$33,143
Worth in national money
$36,252
State rank
30
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Idaho pays this job around $40,120 at the midpoint, 30 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 476 occupations Idaho publishes, this job lands at 385. 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 $40,120 you keep $33,143 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $36,252 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $46,280, since top earners drag the number up.
- For helpers--pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters the Idaho median is $40,120, ranking 30 of 48 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.
- Within Idaho, this work ranks 385 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 $33,143 after the full tax stack, from $40,120. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $36,252 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $46,280 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,540 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,610 |
| This salary | $40,120 |
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 | $33,143 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,416 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$835 |
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 | $38,536 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,010 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $40,120 as a midpoint for Idaho, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,540 and the ninetieth is $66,610 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $33,143 take-home in Idaho comes from $40,120. 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 385 of 476.
- Two cautions on $36,252, the adjusted value of that $40,120 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 385 of 476 locally.
- The Idaho median of $40,120 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,540 to $66,610. 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 $33,143, from $40,120, 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 385 of 476 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 48 for it.
- This $36,252 adjusted figure, worked from $40,120, 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 385 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 385 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 $46,280 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $37,540 and the top tenth $66,610 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $36,252 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 $33,143 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 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 $46,280. 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 ($37,540) and the ninetieth ($66,610) 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 $36,252 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 $33,143 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.