Do electricians make more in Pocatello or Coeur d'Alene?

Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $60,540 in Pocatello and $66,350 in Coeur d'Alene, a 9% difference.

Electrician salary in Pocatello, ID

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Pocatello, ID area earn a median of $60,540 a year, or $29.11 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $90,040. Across all of Idaho, the median is $63,000, so Pocatello pays 4% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$60,540

Bottom 10% under$38,650Top 10% over$90,040

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.58/hr
Jobs in this area: 160
After cost of living: $68,090
Median hourly pay: $29.11/hr
vs U.S. median: −4%
vs Idaho median: −4%
Mean (average) pay: $61,570 a year · $29.60 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 38540, Pocatello, ID). Excludes self-employed electricians. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What electricians in Pocatello, 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	$18.58	$38,650
25th percentile	$22.02	$45,810
Median (50th)	$29.11	$60,540
75th percentile	$36.07	$75,030
90th percentile	$43.29	$90,040

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Pocatello, ID compares

Pocatello ranks 5th of 7 Idaho metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are less concentrated in the Pocatello area than nationally: 4.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.87 times the U.S. share.

Other Idaho metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Pocatello or Coeur d'Alene?: Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $60,540 in Pocatello and $66,350 in Coeur d'Alene, a 9% 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 38540 (Pocatello, 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 (88.9, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures