Boise City, ID Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Boise City, ID - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Boise City, ID moved from $47,580 in May 2024 to $49,100 in May 2025 (+3.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Boise City, ID sits +0.1 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
General and Operations Managers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Boise City, ID
General and Operations Managers publishes $83,680 here versus $105,770 nationally (-20.9%; 11,270metro-area jobs). Next is Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists at $62,380 locally versus $78,760 nationally (-20.8%).
- General and Operations Managers$83,680 in Boise City, ID sits 20.9% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (11,270 published local jobs).
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists$62,380 in Boise City, ID sits 20.8% below the national Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists median of $78,760 (2,020 published local jobs).
- Carpenters$50,850 in Boise City, ID sits 16.1% below the national Carpenters median of $60,580 (4,080 published local jobs).
- Management Analysts$86,390 in Boise City, ID sits 15.2% below the national Management Analysts median of $101,860 (2,180 published local jobs).
General and Operations Managers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Boise City, ID; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 14260 · Boise City, ID $63K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #136/528
- RPP-MID 98.4
- OCC-MOST 506 occs
- TOP-LEAD Airline Pilots… · $508K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Virginia Beach-C…
- BOOK-FULL 468 rows · May 2025
Read with Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC (+$11 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Boise City, ID
Employment scale inside Boise City, ID's top-pay list
Software Developers and Chief Executives lead published employment inside Boise City, ID's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 3,240 jobs · $131,590
- 2. Chief Executives 1,630 jobs · $172,780
- 3. Financial Managers 1,570 jobs · $131,130
- 4. Sales Managers 1,270 jobs · $141,440
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,140 jobs · $161,990
- 6. Physicians, All Other 1,010 jobs · $281,440
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 840 jobs · $132,610
- 8. Pharmacists 830 jobs · $150,710
- 9. Computer Hardware Engineers 830 jobs · $131,570
- 10. Marketing Managers 780 jobs · $159,930
- 11. Managers, All Other 690 jobs · $130,970
- 12. Physician Assistants 650 jobs · $134,800
- 13. Architectural and Engineering Managers 600 jobs · $168,530
- 14. Electrical Engineers 590 jobs · $129,790
- 15. Family Medicine Physicians 390 jobs · $347,160
- 16. Engineers, All Other 310 jobs · $135,020
- 17. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 240 jobs · $172,920
- 18. Purchasing Managers 180 jobs · $144,660
Occupations Tracked
506
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$63,291
employment-weighted, 468 complete rows
Top Salary
$507,640
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
Cost of Living
98.4
2% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Boise City, ID
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $507,640 |
| 2 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $355,390 |
| 3 | Family Medicine Physicians | $347,160 |
| 4 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $316,000 |
| 5 | Physicians, All Other | $281,440 |
| 6 | Nurse Anesthetists | $227,990 |
| 7 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $172,920 |
| 8 | Chief Executives | $172,780 |
| 9 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $168,530 |
| 10 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $161,990 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $159,930 |
| 12 | Pharmacists | $150,710 |
| 13 | Purchasing Managers | $144,660 |
| 14 | Sales Managers | $141,440 |
| 15 | Training and Development Managers | $137,240 |
| 16 | Engineers, All Other | $135,020 |
| 17 | Physician Assistants | $134,800 |
| 18 | Power Plant Operators | $134,050 |
| 19 | Nurse Practitioners | $132,610 |
| 20 | Software Developers | $131,590 |
| 21 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $131,570 |
| 22 | Financial Managers | $131,130 |
| 23 | Managers, All Other | $130,970 |
| 24 | Commercial Pilots | $130,900 |
| 25 | Electrical Engineers | $129,790 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Boise City, ID
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,540 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,030 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $28,430 |
| Bartenders | $28,840 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $29,000 |
| School Bus Monitors | $29,600 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,660 |
| Recreation Workers | $30,620 |
| Childcare Workers | $30,630 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $30,650 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in ID
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside ID. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($63,291 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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