Property Appraisers and Assessors in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,623
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$12,788
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,371
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
$63,410
Kept after tax
$50,623
Worth in national money
$55,371
State rank
25
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Idaho pays this job around $63,410 at the midpoint, 25 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 164 among 476 occupations Idaho publishes pay for.
- Here is where Idaho does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $63,410 you keep $50,623, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $55,371 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $74,740, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For property appraisers and assessors the Idaho median is $63,410, ranking 25 of 50 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.
- Position 164 of 476 in Idaho places property appraisers and assessors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After federal, FICA and Idaho income tax, retained pay for property appraisers and assessors on $63,410 is $50,623. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $55,371 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 $74,740 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Property Appraisers and Assessors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $126,760 |
| This salary | $63,410 |
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 | $50,623 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,130 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$696 |
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 | $60,289 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$842 |
| 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 property appraisers and assessors in Idaho earn under $63,410 and half over. The published range runs $39,640 at the tenth percentile to $126,760 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Idaho the take-home figure of $50,623, from $63,410, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 164 of 476 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $55,371, the adjusted value of that $63,410 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 164 of 476 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for property appraisers and assessors in Idaho, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,640 to $126,760; 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.
- Take-home for Idaho is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,623 from $63,410. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 164 of 476 locally.
- This $55,371 adjusted figure, worked from $63,410, 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 164 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 164 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 $74,740, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $39,640 and the top tenth $126,760 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Idaho sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $55,371 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $50,623 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 $74,740. 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 ($39,640) and the ninetieth ($126,760) 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 $55,371 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 $50,623 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.