Heavy equipment operator salary in Idaho Falls, ID
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Heavy equipment operators in the Idaho Falls, ID area earn a median of $63,910 a year, or $30.73 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $98,150 a year. Across all of Idaho, the median is $61,680, so Idaho Falls pays 4% more than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.78/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 470
- After cost of living
- $67,690
- Median hourly pay
- $30.73/hr
- vs U.S. median
- +7%
- vs Idaho median
- +4%
- Mean (average) pay
- $69,490 a year · $33.41 an hour
Pay by percentile
What heavy equipment operators in Idaho Falls, 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 | $22.78 | $47,380 |
| 25th percentile | $24.14 | $50,200 |
| Median (50th) | $30.73 | $63,910 |
| 75th percentile | $44.52 | $92,600 |
| 90th percentile | $47.19 | $98,150 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Idaho Falls, ID compares
- Idaho Falls ranks 2nd of 7 Idaho metro areas for heavy equipment operator pay.
- Heavy equipment operators are more concentrated in the Idaho Falls area than nationally: 5.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.9 times the U.S. share.
Other Idaho metro areas
Other trades in Idaho Falls, ID
Questions
- Do heavy equipment operators make more in Idaho Falls or Coeur d'Alene?
- Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $63,910 in Idaho Falls and $64,540 in Coeur d'Alene, a 1% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2073 (Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators), area code 26820 (Idaho Falls, ID). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed heavy equipment operators 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 (94.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures