Plumber salary in Idaho Falls, ID
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Plumbers in the Idaho Falls, ID area earn a median of $51,420 a year, or $24.72 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $78,900 a year. Across all of Idaho, the median is $52,380, so Idaho Falls pays 2% less than the state as a whole.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $18.46/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 260
- After cost of living
- $54,460
- Median hourly pay
- $24.72/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −19%
- vs Idaho median
- −2%
- Mean (average) pay
- $58,490 a year · $28.12 an hour
Pay by percentile
What plumbers 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 | $18.46 | $38,400 |
| 25th percentile | $21.23 | $44,170 |
| Median (50th) | $24.72 | $51,420 |
| 75th percentile | $33.40 | $69,470 |
| 90th percentile | $37.93 | $78,900 |
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 4th of 7 Idaho metro areas for plumber pay.
- Plumbers hold about the same share of jobs in the Idaho Falls area as nationally: 3.2 of every 1,000 jobs.
Other Idaho metro areas
Other trades in Idaho Falls, ID
Questions
- Do plumbers make more in Idaho Falls or Logan?
- Logan pays more: the median is $51,420 in Idaho Falls and $60,390 in Logan, a 15% 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 26820 (Idaho Falls, 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 (94.4, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures