Do welders make more in Coeur d'Alene or Pocatello?

Pocatello pays more: the median is $51,510 in Coeur d'Alene and $58,140 in Pocatello, a 11% difference.

Welder salary in Coeur d'Alene, ID

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Coeur d'Alene, ID area earn a median of $51,510 a year, or $24.76 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $62,240 a year. Across all of Idaho, the median is $50,530, so Coeur d'Alene pays 2% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$51,510

Bottom 10% under$41,680Top 10% over$62,240

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $20.04/hr
Jobs in this area: 230
After cost of living: $52,400
Median hourly pay: $24.76/hr
vs U.S. median: −4%
vs Idaho median: +2%
Mean (average) pay: $53,250 a year · $25.60 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 17660, Coeur d'Alene, ID). Excludes self-employed welders. 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 welders in Coeur d'Alene, 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	$20.04	$41,680
25th percentile	$22.65	$47,110
Median (50th)	$24.76	$51,510
75th percentile	$27.68	$57,560
90th percentile	$29.92	$62,240

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

How Coeur d'Alene, ID compares

Coeur d'Alene ranks 3rd of 7 Idaho metro areas for welder pay.
Welders are more concentrated in the Coeur d'Alene area than nationally: 3.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do welders make more in Coeur d'Alene or Pocatello?: Pocatello pays more: the median is $51,510 in Coeur d'Alene and $58,140 in Pocatello, a 11% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 51-4121 (Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers), area code 17660 (Coeur d'Alene, ID). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed welders 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 (98.3, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures