Idaho average teacher salary
$62,786
Average public school teacher salary in Idaho, 2024
+2.1% since 2023 ($61,516); +18.7% since 2019 ($52,875)
Source: Idaho State Department of Education, Statewide Certificated Staff Salary Reports, and NCES Digest Table 211.60. Data period 2024. Published April 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
Note on this value: Idaho State Department of Education, FTE average base salary plus extra pay, for the 'Teacher' certificated staff activity.
What the number tells us
Average public school teacher salary in Idaho: $62,786 in 2024. 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.
Among 51 states and the District of Columbia, Idaho ranked 39th highest in 2021. New York was highest at $92,222 and Mississippi lowest at $47,162.
Historical data
Source: Idaho State Department of Education, Statewide Certificated Staff Salary Reports, and NCES Digest Table 211.60. Published April 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
Data table (9 rows)
| Period | Idaho (dollars) |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $47,496.97 |
| 2017 | $49,209.29 |
| 2018 | $50,755.21 |
| 2019 | $52,875.03 |
| 2020 | $51,816.89 |
| 2021 | $54,231.6 |
| 2022 | $56,364.58 |
| 2023 | $61,516.37 |
| 2024 | $62,786 |
Compared with other states
Idaho, its six neighboring states, the United States, and the three highest and lowest states in 2021. The table lists all 52.
Source: Idaho State Department of Education, Statewide Certificated Staff Salary Reports, and NCES Digest Table 211.60. Data period 2021. Published April 2025. Retrieved September 8, 2026.
Data table (52 rows)
| State | 2021 |
|---|---|
| 1. New York | $92,222 |
| 2. Massachusetts | $88,903 |
| 3. California | $87,275 |
| 4. District of Columbia | $82,523 |
| 5. Washington | $81,586 |
| 6. Connecticut | $81,185 |
| 7. New Jersey | $79,045 |
| 8. Rhode Island | $76,852 |
| 9. Maryland | $75,766 |
| 10. Alaska | $73,722 |
| 11. Illinois | $72,301 |
| 12. Pennsylvania | $72,248 |
| 13. Oregon | $69,671 |
| 14. Minnesota | $68,491 |
| 15. Hawaii | $67,000 |
| 16. United States | $66,397 |
| 17. Delaware | $65,647 |
| 18. Michigan | $65,198 |
| 19. Ohio | $63,153 |
| 20. Vermont | $62,866 |
| 21. New Hampshire | $62,783 |
| 22. Georgia | $61,249 |
| 23. Wyoming | $60,820 |
| 24. Wisconsin | $60,453 |
| 25. Virginia | $59,965 |
| 26. Iowa | $59,262 |
| 27. Texas | $58,887 |
| 28. Maine | $58,757 |
| 29. Utah | $58,619 |
| 30. Colorado | $58,481 |
| 31. Nevada | $57,804 |
| 32. Nebraska | $57,420 |
| 33. Alabama | $55,834 |
| 34. North Dakota | $55,769 |
| 35. Kansas | $54,815 |
| 36. Oklahoma | $54,804 |
| 37. Arizona | $54,580 |
| 38. Kentucky | $54,574 |
| 39. New Mexico | $54,272 |
| 40. Idaho | $54,231.6 |
| 41. Indiana | $54,126 |
| 42. North Carolina | $53,644 |
| 43. Montana | $53,628 |
| 44. Tennessee | $53,619 |
| 45. South Carolina | $53,393 |
| 46. Arkansas | $52,486 |
| 47. Missouri | $52,481 |
| 48. Louisiana | $52,376 |
| 49. Florida | $51,230 |
| 50. West Virginia | $50,315 |
| 51. South Dakota | $49,761 |
| 52. Mississippi | $47,162 |
- NCES Digest of Education Statistics table 211.60, estimated average annual salary of teachers, current dollars.
- Idaho: Idaho State Department of Education, FTE average base salary plus extra pay, for the 'Teacher' certificated staff activity.
Source
- Organization
- Idaho State Department of Education
- Dataset
- Statewide Certificated Staff Salary Reports, and NCES Digest Table 211.60
- 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
- Original file
- https://www.sde.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2024-2025-Statewide-Cert-Staff-Salary-Report.pdf
- Methodology
- https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d22/tables/dt22_211.60.asp
- License
- Public domain. State of Idaho and U.S. federal government work.
- Our copy
- sde-staff, built by
scripts/fetch-sde-staff.py
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.
Data
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