Occupational Health and Safety Technicians in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,566
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$12,104
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,121
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
$60,670
Kept after tax
$48,566
Worth in national money
$53,121
State rank
33
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Idaho pays this job a middle wage of $60,670, 33 of 48 states and about 1.45% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Idaho, this sits in the middle: 199 of 476 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Idaho is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $60,670 the take-home is $48,566; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $53,121 would nationally. The average comes to $70,420, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Idaho's $60,670 median for occupational health and safety technicians places it 33 of 48 states, about 1.45% 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.
- Occupational health and safety technicians ranks 199 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.
- Post-tax income for occupational health and safety technicians in Idaho, on $60,670, is $48,566 — equivalent to $53,121 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $70,420 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,230 |
| This salary | $60,670 |
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 | $48,566 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,928 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$712 |
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 | $57,730 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$862 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of occupational health and safety technicians in Idaho earn under $60,670 and half over. The published range runs $48,150 at the tenth percentile to $105,230 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $48,566 take-home in Idaho comes from $60,670. 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 199 of 476.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $53,121 uses one figure for the whole of Idaho. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 476 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 199.
- Figures are distribution medians for occupational health and safety technicians in Idaho, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,150 to $105,230; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $48,566, from $60,670, 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 199 of 476 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $53,121, worked from $60,670, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Idaho address, on work sitting at 199 of 476 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $70,420, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $48,150, the highest tenth $105,230, 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 $53,121 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 $48,566 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 $70,420. 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 ($48,150) and the ninetieth ($105,230) 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 $53,121 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 $48,566 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.