Teachers and Instructors, All Other in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,260
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$10,340
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,318
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
$53,600
Kept after tax
$43,260
Worth in national money
$47,318
State rank
42
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Idaho pays teachers and instructors, all other a middle wage of $53,600, 42 of 50 states and about 18.96% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Teachers and instructors, all other ranks 244 among 476 occupations Idaho publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $53,600 you keep $43,260 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $47,318 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $56,090, since top earners drag the number up.
- Idaho's $53,600 median for teachers and instructors, all other places it 42 of 50 states, about 18.96% 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.
- Position 244 of 476 in Idaho places teachers and instructors, all other 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.
- Retained pay in Idaho is $43,260 after the full tax stack, from $53,600. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $47,318 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $56,090 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Teachers and Instructors, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,080 |
| This salary | $53,600 |
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 | $43,260 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $45,248 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$755 |
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 | $51,126 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$913 |
| 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 teachers and instructors, all other in Idaho earn under $53,600 and half over. The published range runs $33,630 at the tenth percentile to $91,080 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Idaho's $43,260, worked from $53,600. 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 244 of 476.
- Two cautions on $47,318, the adjusted value of that $53,600 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 244 of 476 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for teachers and instructors, all other in Idaho, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,630 to $91,080; 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.
- The Idaho take-home of $43,260, on $53,600 for work ranking 244 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 244 of 476 in the state.
- This $47,318 adjusted figure, worked from $53,600, 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 244 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 244 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 $56,090 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 $33,630 and the top tenth $91,080 — 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 $47,318 in national terms.
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, $43,260 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $56,090. 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 ($33,630) and the ninetieth ($91,080) 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 $47,318 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 $43,260 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.