How much do nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary make in Idaho?

The median wage for nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary in Idaho is $90,890 a year.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary in Idaho is $93,950 a year. The median is $90,890.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Idaho, the lowest-paid 10% of nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary earn under $46,940 a year and a quarter earn under $70,980.

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary in Idaho spans from $46,940 for the bottom 10% to $145,940 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $70,980 and $124,000 a year, with the overall median at $90,890.

On the median wage of $90,890, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $69,044 a year, or roughly $5,754 a month.

That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 24%.

Idaho takes $3,727 of it in state income tax.

On the median annual salary of $90,890, estimated take-home pay is roughly $5,754 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $2,656 net.

Yes. The median in Idaho is 13.3% above the national median of $80,250.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Idaho sit at 95.5 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 1.17 times the median household income of $77,800. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Idaho run at 95.5 against a national average of 100, with rents at 90, so $90,890 here buys about what $95,179 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $145,940 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $46,940.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Idaho someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 430 of these jobs in Idaho for May 2025.

That makes the occupation exactly as concentrated here as nationally. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.