Do plumbers make more in Boise City or Logan?

Logan pays more: the median is $56,940 in Boise City and $60,390 in Logan, a 6% difference.

Plumber salary in Boise City, ID

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Plumbers in the Boise City, ID area earn a median of $56,940 a year, or $27.38 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $82,770. That's 9% more than the Idaho median of $52,380.

Median yearly pay$56,940

Bottom 10% under$39,450Top 10% over$82,770

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $18.96/hr
Jobs in this area: 1,760
After cost of living: $57,870
Median hourly pay: $27.38/hr
vs U.S. median: −11%
vs Idaho median: +9%
Mean (average) pay: $59,620 a year · $28.66 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 14260, Boise City, ID). Excludes self-employed plumbers. 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 plumbers 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	$18.96	$39,450
25th percentile	$22.40	$46,600
Median (50th)	$27.38	$56,940
75th percentile	$35.89	$74,640
90th percentile	$39.79	$82,770

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 2nd of 7 Idaho metro areas for plumber pay.
Plumbers are more concentrated in the Boise City area than nationally: 4.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

Other Idaho metro areas

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Questions

Do plumbers make more in Boise City or Logan?: Logan pays more: the median is $56,940 in Boise City and $60,390 in Logan, a 6% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2152 (Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters), area code 14260 (Boise City, ID). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed plumbers 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