Sales and Related Workers, All Other in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,851
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$5,550
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,556
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
$34,400
Kept after tax
$28,851
Worth in national money
$31,556
State rank
40
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Idaho. The middle earner gets $34,400. That is 40 of 48 states, and about 28.75% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 476 occupations Idaho publishes, this job lands at 446. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Idaho does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $34,400 you keep $28,851, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $31,556 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $38,200, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For sales and related workers, all other, Idaho sits in the lower band at $34,400, ranking 40 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 28.75%. 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 446 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.
- After federal, FICA and Idaho income tax, retained pay for sales and related workers, all other on $34,400 is $28,851. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $31,556 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 $38,200 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Sales and Related Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $34,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,780 |
| This salary | $34,400 |
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 | $28,851 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $29,820 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$869 |
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 | $33,193 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,051 |
| 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 $34,400. The published range is $28,230 up to $50,780, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $28,851 take-home in Idaho comes from $34,400. 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 446 of 476.
- Two cautions on $31,556, the adjusted value of that $34,400 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 446 of 476 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for sales and related workers, all other in Idaho the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $28,230 to $50,780. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $28,851, from $34,400, 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 446 of 476 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 48 for it.
- This $31,556 adjusted figure, worked from $34,400, 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 446 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 446 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 $38,200 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $28,230 at the bottom tenth to $50,780 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $31,556.
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, $28,851 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 $38,200. 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 ($28,230 to $50,780) 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 $31,556 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 $28,851 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.