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HVAC technician salary in Idaho Falls, ID

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

HVAC technicians in the Idaho Falls, ID area earn a median of $49,190 a year, or $23.65 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $80,720 a year. Across all of Idaho, the median is $56,240, so Idaho Falls pays 13% less than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$49,190
Bottom 10% under$37,810Top 10% over$80,720
Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
$18.18/hr
Jobs in this area
390
After cost of living
$52,100
Median hourly pay
$23.65/hr
vs U.S. median
−19%
vs Idaho median
−13%
Mean (average) pay
$58,360 a year · $28.06 an hour
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 26820, Idaho Falls, ID). Excludes self-employed HVAC technicians. 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 HVAC technicians 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.

PercentileHourlyYearly
10th percentile$18.18$37,810
25th percentile$22.02$45,810
Median (50th)$23.65$49,190
75th percentile$31.78$66,110
90th percentile$38.81$80,720

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 has the lowest HVAC technician median of the 7 Idaho metro areas with published pay.
  • HVAC technicians are more concentrated in the Idaho Falls area than nationally: 4.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.8 times the U.S. share.

Other Idaho metro areas

Other trades in Idaho Falls, ID

Questions

Do HVAC technicians make more in Idaho Falls or Coeur d'Alene?
Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $49,190 in Idaho Falls and $58,800 in Coeur d'Alene, a 16% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 49-9021 (Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers), area code 26820 (Idaho Falls, ID). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed HVAC technicians 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