Idaho Salary Guide — 2026

Idaho Salary Guide 2026: Take-Home + Professions

Idaho compressed five years of incremental rate cuts into a single flat 5.3% rate per HB 521 of 2024 — the cleanest tax-filing structure in the country among non-zero-income-tax states. Boise has been the fastest-growing US metro post-2020, anchored by Micron Technology HQ and HP. Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls is the federal-cleared engineering anchor that doesn't appear on most lists. Property tax runs 0.69% effective. The hard part is Boise housing appreciation that nobody saw coming. — this guide covers pay ranges by profession, take-home after federal + state + FICA, and where Idaho's highest salaries cluster geographically.

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Professions in Idaho (36)

Each link opens the full profession×state salary guide — gross, take-home, specialty bands, and career arc.