Idaho teacher salary
Idaho's own average teacher salary by school year, from the State Department of Education's annual certificated staff salary reports, plus every other state's and the US total's average teacher salary for the newest year the NCES Digest of Education Statistics publishes, for comparison.
Publisher
- Organization
- Idaho State Department of Education
- Publisher’s dataset
- Statewide Certificated Staff Salary Reports, and NCES Digest Table 211.60
- File or API used
- https://www.sde.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2024-2025-Statewide-Cert-Staff-Salary-Report.pdf
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-sde-staff.py- Methodology
- https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_211.60.asp
Coverage
- Geography
- Idaho (statewide) by year; nation and every state for the newest comparison year
- Time coverage
- 2016-2024 (Idaho), 2021 (interstate comparison)
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- April 2025
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- License
- The compiled file on this page is CC BY 4.0. The underlying records: Public domain. State of Idaho and U.S. federal government work.
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Average teacher salary | Average annual salary (base salary plus extra/duty pay) of public school teachers, by year. Idaho is a full annual time series from SDE; every other state and the US total is the newest year NCES's Digest of Education Statistics table 211.60 publishes. | usd |
Caveats
- value is the FTE average base salary plus extra/duty pay for the 'Teacher' certificated staff activity, not base salary alone; SDE's certificated salary reports also publish a base-salary-only figure, which is not used here because it is not what NCES table 211.60 reports (confirmed: Idaho's SDE-computed 2019-20 and 2020-21 base+extra averages of $52,875.03 and $51,816.89 round to NCES's published $52,875 and $51,817 for the same years).
- SDE's statewide certificated salary report does not exist as a standalone document before school year 2016-17 on SDE's current data page, so the Idaho time series starts there rather than earlier.
- School years 2016-17 and 2017-18 report 'Teacher - Elementary' and 'Teacher - Secondary' as two separate activity rows rather than one combined 'Teacher' row; this dataset combines them into one FTE-weighted average for those two years only.
- period 2024 (school year 2024-25) is read from SDE's PDF report rather than an Excel file, because SDE did not publish an Excel version of the certificated report for that year; the PDF prints whole-dollar figures with no cents, unlike the Excel-sourced years which carry full decimal precision.
- The interstate comparison (every geography other than Idaho, period 2021) is for school year 2021-22, the newest year NCES's Digest of Education Statistics table 211.60 has published as of retrieval (the current, 2022, Digest edition; the 2023 and 2024 editions do not yet carry an updated version of this table). It is not the same year as Idaho's own newest SDE figure (2024, school year 2024-25); comparing Idaho's 2024 SDE figure against other states' 2021 NCES figures compares different years.
- Idaho's own period-2021 observation comes from SDE, not NCES, to keep one value per (metric, geo, period); NCES's Idaho figure for the same year ($54,232) matches SDE's ($54,231.60 rounded) within a dollar.
- publisherUpdated (2025-04) is SDE's stamped date for the primary source; no separate publisher-stamped date was found on nces.ed.gov for table 211.60 itself, only that it belongs to the 2022 Digest of Education Statistics edition.
Pages built on this dataset
Downloads
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Statewide Certificated Staff Salary Reports, and NCES Digest Table 211.60”, compiled from Idaho State Department of Education, Statewide Certificated Staff Salary Reports, and NCES Digest Table 211.60. Retrieved September 8, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/sde-staff/. CC BY 4.0.
Cite Idaho State Department of Education directly for the figures themselves.
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