State labor market
Idaho labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Idaho. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Idaho hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Idaho.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Idaho workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
General and operations managers
24,880estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
20,770estimated employmentCustomer service representatives
18,770estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Idaho figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$92,460/yr Idaho median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$131,590/yr Idaho median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$63,000/yr Idaho median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$74,730/yr Idaho median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$61,600/yr Idaho median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$142,090/yr Idaho median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Idaho occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Idaho workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Food batchmakers$49,570/yr state median · 1,700 workers+17.2%vs. U.S. $42,290/yr
- Parts salespersons$44,580/yr state median · 1,980 workers+15.4%vs. U.S. $38,630/yr
- Physicians, all other$299,340/yr state median · 1,700 workers+12.6%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- Surgical technologists$72,550/yr state median · 1,100 workers+12.2%vs. U.S. $64,650/yr
- Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders$46,720/yr state median · 3,950 workers+8.1%vs. U.S. $43,220/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Lawyers$103,400/yr state median · 2,490 workers-35.2%vs. U.S. $159,670/yr
- Computer systems analysts$75,310/yr state median · 1,650 workers-28.9%vs. U.S. $105,850/yr
- Property, real estate, and community association managers$51,370/yr state median · 1,680 workers-26.6%vs. U.S. $69,990/yr
- Data scientists$89,380/yr state median · 1,350 workers-25.7%vs. U.S. $120,230/yr
- Sheet metal workers$46,350/yr state median · 1,290 workers-25.0%vs. U.S. $61,800/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Idaho
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Idaho. Links marked “Idaho report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Idaho report is available.
594 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.