Do millwrights make more in Boise City or Coeur d'Alene?

Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $64,710 in Boise City and $66,460 in Coeur d'Alene, a 3% difference.

Millwright salary in Boise City, ID

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Millwrights in the Boise City, ID area earn a median of $64,710 a year, or $31.11 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $73,970. Across all of Idaho, the median is $64,710, so Boise City pays about the same as the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$64,710

Bottom 10% under$59,370Top 10% over$73,970

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $28.54/hr
Jobs in this area: 70
After cost of living: $65,770
Median hourly pay: $31.11/hr
vs U.S. median: −2%
vs Idaho median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $64,780 a year · $31.14 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 14260, Boise City, ID). Excludes self-employed millwrights. 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 millwrights 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	$28.54	$59,370
25th percentile	$29.48	$61,320
Median (50th)	$31.11	$64,710
75th percentile	$32.02	$66,610
90th percentile	$35.56	$73,970

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

How Boise City, ID compares

Millwrights are less concentrated in the Boise City area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.67 times the U.S. share.

Other Idaho metro areas

Coeur d'Alene$66,460

Other trades in Boise City, ID

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Questions

Do millwrights make more in Boise City or Coeur d'Alene?: Coeur d'Alene pays more: the median is $64,710 in Boise City and $66,460 in Coeur d'Alene, a 3% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 49-9044 (Millwrights), area code 14260 (Boise City, ID). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed millwrights 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