Coeur d'Alene, ID Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Coeur d'Alene, ID - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Coeur d'Alene, ID moved from $46,010 in May 2024 to $47,750 in May 2025 (+3.8%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Coeur d'Alene, ID sits +0.7 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

General and Operations Managers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Coeur d'Alene, ID

General and Operations Managers publishes $80,270 here versus $105,770 nationally (-24.1%; 2,220metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $37,010 locally versus $35,410 nationally (+4.5%).

  1. General and Operations Managers$80,270 in Coeur d'Alene, ID sits 24.1% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,220 published local jobs).
  2. Retail Salespersons$37,010 in Coeur d'Alene, ID sits 4.5% above the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,340 published local jobs).
  3. Fast Food and Counter Workers$30,080 in Coeur d'Alene, ID sits 3.6% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,680 published local jobs).
  4. Registered Nurses$98,910 in Coeur d'Alene, ID sits 1.4% above the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,060 published local jobs).

General and Operations Managers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Coeur d'Alene, ID; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 17660 · Coeur d'Alene, ID $58K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-MID #263/528
  • RPP-MID 98.3
  • OCC-MID 255 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $412K
  • EMP-MIX Medical and…
  • TREND-INLINE +0.7 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Idaho Falls, ID
  • BOOK-MOST 252 rows · May 2025

Read with Idaho Falls, ID (+$74 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 Coeur d'Alene, ID

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KCoeur d'Alene, ID · this MSA: $58KCoeur d'Alene, ID · this MSA$58KIdaho Falls, ID · near: $58KIdaho Falls, ID · near$58KBloomington, IN · near: $58KBloomington, IN · near$58KEastern and Southern… · near: $58KEastern and Southern… · near$58KJackson, MI · near: $58KJackson, MI · near$58KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Coeur d'Alene, ID · this MSA $58K
Idaho Falls, ID · near $58K
Bloomington, IN · near $58K
Eastern and Southern… · near $58K
Jackson, MI · near $58K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Coeur d'Alene, ID's top-pay list

Medical and Health Services Managers and Software Developers lead published employment inside Coeur d'Alene, ID's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 410 jobs · $126,280
  2. 2. Software Developers 310 jobs · $126,870
  3. 3. Financial Managers 270 jobs · $123,450
  4. 4. Lawyers 270 jobs · $105,920
  5. 5. Sales Managers 220 jobs · $143,570
  6. 6. Nurse Practitioners 180 jobs · $134,950
  7. 7. Construction Managers 180 jobs · $111,620
  8. 8. Pharmacists 170 jobs · $157,100
  9. 9. Chief Executives 160 jobs · $171,590
  10. 10. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 150 jobs · $104,570
  11. 11. Physician Assistants 110 jobs · $135,240
  12. 12. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 90 jobs · $125,890
  13. 13. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $124,900
  14. 14. Marketing Managers 90 jobs · $115,470
  15. 15. First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers 80 jobs · $103,260
  16. 16. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $352,700
  17. 17. Veterinarians 60 jobs · $121,000
  18. 18. Human Resources Managers 50 jobs · $128,030

Occupations Tracked

255

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$58,056

employment-weighted, 252 complete rows

Top Salary

$411,670

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

98.3

2% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $58,056 by the metro RPP gives $59,064 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Coeur d'Alene, ID

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $411,670
2 Family Medicine Physicians $352,700
3 Chief Executives $171,590
4 Pharmacists $157,100
5 Dentists, General $149,700
6 Sales Managers $143,570
7 Physician Assistants $135,240
8 Nurse Practitioners $134,950
9 Human Resources Managers $128,030
10 Software Developers $126,870
11 Medical and Health Services Managers $126,280
12 Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers $125,890
13 Computer and Information Systems Managers $124,900
14 Financial Managers $123,450
15 Veterinarians $121,000
16 Architectural and Engineering Managers $116,670
17 Marketing Managers $115,470
18 Construction Managers $111,620
19 Electrical Engineers $108,740
20 Lawyers $105,920
21 Computer Network Architects $105,120
22 Education Administrators, Postsecondary $104,960
23 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $104,570
24 First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers $103,260
25 Computer Occupations, All Other $101,090

Lowest Paying Jobs in Coeur d'Alene, ID

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 ($58,056 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Coeur d'Alene, ID?
Across the 252 occupation rows for Coeur d'Alene, ID with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $58,056/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 255 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $144,414, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Coeur d'Alene, ID?
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Coeur d'Alene, ID at $411,670/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Family Medicine Physicians at $352,700/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Coeur d'Alene, ID?
Coeur d'Alene, ID has a Regional Price Parity of 98.3, meaning prices are 2% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $58,056 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $59,064.
Where does BLS salary data for Coeur d'Alene, ID come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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