Idaho's largest employers

11.3%

Share of Idaho employment at the state's principal employers, 2025

+0.9 pts since 2016 (10.4%)

Source: Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller, Idaho Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section, Fiscal Year 2025. Data period 2025. Published May 21, 2026. Retrieved September 8, 2026.

What the number tells us

Share of Idaho employment at the state's principal employers: 11.3% in 2025. The combined share of total state employment held by all of Idaho's principal employers listed in Schedule 12, for June 30, 2016 and June 30, 2025. Source: ACFR Schedule 12, Total row.

Historical data

Source: Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller, Idaho Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section, Fiscal Year 2025. Published May 21, 2026. Retrieved September 8, 2026.

Data table (2 rows)

Period	Idaho (percent)
2016	10.4%
2025	11.3%

Share of state employment by employer

Each of Idaho's principal employers' share of total state employment, by employer, for June 30, 2016 and June 30, 2025. Source: ACFR Schedule 12, Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago.

Data table (11 rows)

Employer	2025 (percent)
State of Idaho	3.7%
St. Luke's Health System	1.6%
Federal Government	1.5%
Wal-Mart	0.9%
Albertson's Inc.	0.6%
Battelle Energy Alliance	0.6%
Micron Technology	0.6%
St. Alphonsus Health System	0.6%
West Ada School District	0.5%
Boise School District	0.4%
Kootenai Health	0.3%

Top 100 employers

One row per employer on Idaho's statewide Top 100 employers list for the 2025 edition, in the department's own published rank order.

Data table (100 rows)

Rank	Employer	Ownership	Employees (published range)
1	St. Luke's Health System	Private	12,500 to 14,999
2	Walmart	Private	7,500 to 9,999
3	St. Alphonsus Health System	Private	5,000 to 7,499
4	Battelle Energy Alliance	Private	5,000 to 7,499
5	Boise State University	State Government	5,000 to 7,499
6	Micron Technology	Private	5,000 to 7,499
7	Albertsons	Private	2,500 to 4,999
8	West Ada School District	Local Government	2,500 to 4,999
9	Boise Independent School District	Local Government	2,500 to 4,999
10	J.R. Simplot Co.	Private	2,500 to 4,999
11	University of Idaho	State Government	2,500 to 4,999
12	Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare	State Government	2,500 to 4,999
13	U.S. Postal Service	Federal Government	2,500 to 4,999
14	Idaho State University	State Government	2,500 to 4,999
15	Veterans Administration	Federal Government	2,500 to 4,999
16	City of Boise	Local Government	2,500 to 4,999
17	U.S. Dept. of Agriculture	Federal Government	1,000 to 2,499
18	Fred Meyer	Private	1,000 to 2,499
19	Idaho Department of Correction	State Government	1,000 to 2,499
20	Idaho Power	Private	1,000 to 2,499
21	Ada County	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
22	Amalgamated Sugar Company	Private	1,000 to 2,499
23	Idaho Central Credit Union	Private	1,000 to 2,499
24	Bonneville Joint School District	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
25	Brigham Young University-Idaho	Private	1,000 to 2,499
26	Idaho Transportation Department	State Government	1,000 to 2,499
27	Costco	Private	1,000 to 2,499
28	Melaleuca	Private	1,000 to 2,499
29	Pocatello School District	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
30	United Parcel Service	Private	1,000 to 2,499
31	Lamb Weston	Private	1,000 to 2,499
32	Portneuf Hospital Group	Private	1,000 to 2,499
33	Eastern Idaho Health Services	Private	1,000 to 2,499
34	Nampa School District	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
35	Civillian Department of Defense	Federal Government	1,000 to 2,499
36	RMD Management LLC	Private	1,000 to 2,499
37	Idaho Falls School District	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
38	Fluor Marine Propulsion LLC	Private	1,000 to 2,499
39	Coeur d'Alene School District	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
40	Jackson's Food Stores	Private	1,000 to 2,499
41	Vallivue School District	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
42	Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service	Private	1,000 to 2,499
43	Sun Valley Company	Private	1,000 to 2,499
44	Chobani LLC	Private	1,000 to 2,499
45	Twin Falls School District	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
46	Idaho Forest Group	Private	1,000 to 2,499
47	Engineered Structures	Private	1,000 to 2,499
48	Federal Cartridge Company	Private	1,000 to 2,499
49	North Shore Motor Hotel	Private	1,000 to 2,499
50	U.S. Department of the Interior	Federal Government	1,000 to 2,499
51	Schweitzer	Private	1,000 to 2,499
52	Nez Perce Tribe	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
53	College of Western Idaho	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
54	College of Southern Idaho	Local Government	1,000 to 2,499
55	City of Idaho Falls	Local Government	500 to 999
56	Young Men's Christian Association	Private	500 to 999
57	Bingham Memorial Hospital	Private	500 to 999
58	Broulims Supermarkets	Private	500 to 999
59	Madison School District	Local Government	500 to 999
60	Canyon County	Local Government	500 to 999
61	HP	Private	500 to 999
62	Target	Private	500 to 999
63	Kootenai County	Local Government	500 to 999
64	Silverwood	Private	500 to 999
65	Amy's Kitchen	Private	500 to 999
66	U.S. Bank National Association	Private	500 to 999
67	Cassia County School District	Local Government	500 to 999
68	Lewiston School District	Local Government	500 to 999
69	Coeur d'Alene Casino	Local Government	500 to 999
70	VTCU Corporation	Private	500 to 999
71	Jefferson County Joint School District	Local Government	500 to 999
72	Idaho Fish and Game	State Government	500 to 999
73	Ridgecrest Golf Course	Local Government	500 to 999
74	Western States Equipment Company	Private	500 to 999
75	Madison Memorial Hospital	Local Government	500 to 999
76	Knife River Corporation	Private	500 to 999
77	North Idaho College	Local Government	500 to 999
78	Kuna Joint School District	Local Government	500 to 999
79	Nelson Ricks Creamery Company	Private	500 to 999
80	Shoshone Bannock Tribes	Local Government	500 to 999
81	City of Pocatello	Local Government	500 to 999
82	Post Falls School District	Local Government	500 to 999
83	Clearwater Paper Corporation	Private	500 to 999
84	Wells Fargo	Private	500 to 999
85	Woodgrain Millwork	Private	500 to 999
86	Clearwater Analytics LLC	Private	500 to 999
87	McCain Foods	Private	500 to 999
88	Power Engineers	Private	500 to 999
89	Idahoan Foods LLC	Private	500 to 999
90	Lakeland Joint School District	Local Government	500 to 999
91	Sunspiced	Private	500 to 999
92	Scentsy	Private	500 to 999
93	Moscow Hospital Association	Private	500 to 999
94	City of Meridian	Local Government	500 to 999
95	Citibank	Private	500 to 999
96	Lewis-Clark State College	State Government	500 to 999
97	Lake Pend Oreille School District 0	Local Government	500 to 999
98	Caldwell School District 132	Local Government	500 to 999
99	Staker Paving & Construction	Private	500 to 999
100	G and A Outsourcing	Private	500 to 999

Source: Idaho Department of Labor, Labor Market Information, Idaho Top 100 Employers, 2025. Published August 31, 2026. Retrieved September 8, 2026.

Source

Organization: Transparent Idaho, Office of the Idaho State Controller
Dataset: Idaho Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, Statistical Section, Fiscal Year 2025
Geography: Idaho (statewide)
Time coverage: FY2016-FY2025
Update frequency: Annual
Published: May 21, 2026
Retrieved: September 8, 2026
Original file: https://www.sco.idaho.gov/CAFRDocuments/2025%20Annual%20Comprehensive%20Financial%20Report.pdf
Methodology: https://www.sco.idaho.gov/CAFRDocuments/2025%20Annual%20Comprehensive%20Financial%20Report.pdf
License: Public domain. State of Idaho government work.
Our copy: transparent-idaho-acfr, built by scripts/fetch-transparent-idaho-acfr.py

Caveats

spending_total and spending_by_category (Schedule 4, Changes in Fund Balances - Governmental Funds) are actual expenditures on the modified accrual basis of accounting, for governmental funds only; they exclude Idaho's proprietary/business-type funds (for example the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund and university enterprise activity) and discretely presented component units, and are rounded to the nearest thousand dollars as the source prints them (unit usd_thousands).
spending_by_category's 'Debt Service - Principal' and 'Debt Service - Interest' categories are the two components of the source's 'Debt Service' line; all other categories are the source's own function labels, with trailing footnote markers removed.
The source labels its FY2024 column '(as restated)'; FY2024 observations for spending_total and spending_by_category carry a note saying so.
state_employees (Schedule 14, State Employees by Function) is a full-time headcount, not a full-time-equivalent (FTP) count, and excludes the source's separate part-time and temporary employee count.
The source notes that FY2024 state_employees figures reflect a 2024 change of financial systems and reporting; the FY2024 observation carries this note.
government.spending_total disagrees with the Legislative Services Office's FY2025 all-funds actual expenditure figure because the two are prepared on different bases; see disagreements below.
Dashboard-only figures on transparent.idaho.gov (the Tableau-based vendor payment, agency transaction, and current state-employee-pay tools) were not scraped and are not part of this dataset; only the ACFR PDF, which is a genuine downloadable document, was used.
principal_employer_share and principal_employers_share_total (Schedule 12, Principal Employers) are percent of total state employment as of June 30, 2016 and June 30, 2025. The ACFR itself credits these figures to the Idaho Department of Labor, except the State of Idaho's own employee figures, which come from the Office of the Idaho State Controller.
Schedule 12's underlying employee counts are published only as ranges (for example '19,500-20,000', or an open range like '35,000+'), never as a single figure, so this dataset stores the percent-of-state-employment figures as observations but does not convert a range to a point value anywhere; the ranges are kept as printed in data/records/transparent-idaho-acfr.json.
Schedule 12's Total row gives a total employee count that the source states is the sum of each range's midpoint, an estimate built on top of already-ranged inputs; that count is not stored in this dataset at all, in either observations or records.
Schedule 12's own notes: all figures are a calendar-year average except the State of Idaho's count, which is as of January 9, 2025 (from the 2025 Legislative Handbook); an employer that has not signed a disclosure with the Idaho Department of Labor for a given year does not appear in that year's columns, which is why some employers have a record for only one of the two years.

Where sources disagree

government.spending_total, 16, FY2025: idaho-lso publishes 12983836.2. This dataset's FY2025 total (15,233,737 usd_thousands) is actual expenditure for governmental funds only, on the modified accrual (GAAP) basis, from the ACFR. The Legislative Services Office's 2026 Legislative Fiscal Report reports FY2025 actual expenditure of $12,983,836,200 (12,983,836.2 usd_thousands) on the state's budgetary basis, 'All Funds' (General, dedicated, and federal funds tracked through the appropriation process), which excludes the ACFR's proprietary funds and component units and uses cash/encumbrance appropriation accounting rather than modified accrual. Both figures are real and correctly sourced; they answer different questions about the same fiscal year.

Data

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