Do welders make more in Lewiston or Pocatello?

Pocatello pays more: the median is $55,890 in Lewiston and $58,140 in Pocatello, a 4% difference.

Welder salary in Lewiston, ID-WA

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Welders in the Lewiston, ID-WA area earn a median of $55,890 a year, or $26.87 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $63,940. Across all of Idaho, the median is $50,530, so Lewiston pays 11% more than the state as a whole.

Median yearly pay$55,890

Bottom 10% under$44,050Top 10% over$63,940

Entry-level starting pay (estimate): $21.18/hr
Jobs in this area: 210
After cost of living: $61,310
Median hourly pay: $26.87/hr
vs U.S. median: +4%
vs Idaho median: +11%
Mean (average) pay: $55,130 a year · $26.50 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 30300, Lewiston, ID-WA). 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 Lewiston, ID-WA 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	$21.18	$44,050
25th percentile	$23.36	$48,590
Median (50th)	$26.87	$55,890
75th percentile	$28.89	$60,090
90th percentile	$30.74	$63,940

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

How Lewiston, ID-WA compares

Lewiston ranks 2nd of 7 Idaho metro areas for welder pay.
Welders are more concentrated in the Lewiston area than nationally: 7.4 of every 1,000 jobs, 2.8 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do welders make more in Lewiston or Pocatello?: Pocatello pays more: the median is $55,890 in Lewiston and $58,140 in Pocatello, a 4% 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 30300 (Lewiston, ID-WA). 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 (91.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures