Electrician salary in Boise City, ID
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Electricians in the Boise City, ID area earn a median of $61,610 a year, or $29.62 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $91,780. Across all of Idaho, the median is $63,000, so Boise City pays 2% less than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.80/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 2,510
- After cost of living
- $62,620
- Median hourly pay
- $29.62/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −3%
- vs Idaho median
- −2%
- Mean (average) pay
- $65,870 a year · $31.67 an hour
Pay by percentile
What electricians in Boise City, ID earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $18.80 | $39,100 |
| 25th percentile | $23.58 | $49,050 |
| Median (50th) | $29.62 | $61,610 |
| 75th percentile | $39.44 | $82,040 |
| 90th percentile | $44.13 | $91,780 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Boise City, ID compares
- Boise City ranks 4th of 7 Idaho metro areas for electrician pay.
- Electricians are more concentrated in the Boise City area than nationally: 6.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.
Other Idaho metro areas
Other trades in Boise City, ID
Questions
- Do electricians make more in Boise City or Lewiston?
- Lewiston pays more: the median is $61,610 in Boise City and $77,130 in Lewiston, a 20% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2111 (Electricians), area code 14260 (Boise City, ID). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed electricians and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (98.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures