Psychologist Salary in Idaho

The psychologist salary in Idaho is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Idaho earned more than $97,790 a year in May 2025 and half earned less. Percentiles mark places in the pay distribution; they are not experience levels. Set beside the U.S. figures for the same occupation, the 10th percentile wage in Idaho is 110 percent of the national $55,170, the median 97 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 82 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Idaho, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $53,230, 86 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $114,380 is 117 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $47.01. The 25th percentile wage ranks fifteenth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twenty-first and the mean annual wage seventeenth.

BLS publishes one metropolitan area for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Idaho: Boise City, ID, with a median annual wage of $99,430 in May 2025, 102 percent of the statewide median and about 120 employed.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Idaho earned a median annual wage of $71,700 in May 2025, 75 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks forty-fifth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 73 percent of the $97,790 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Idaho.

BLS counted about 310 school psychologists and about 300 clinical and counseling psychologists in Idaho, 1.0 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks forty-sixth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage fortieth, and the occupation ranks twenty-second by concentration, 0.36 for every 1,000 jobs.

Boise City, ID has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Idaho: $74,180, with about 170 employed. Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $65,890. BLS publishes three such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Idaho: a median annual wage of $121,140 in May 2025, with about 70 employed, 124 percent of the $97,790 median for clinical and counseling psychologists there. The group holds the psychologists BLS does not list separately, so it is not a wage for any one specialty.

Idaho has 1 ranked PsyD program, led by Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, ID (ranked 100th of 117).

Idaho writes its experience rule in years of at least 1,000 hours each, and lets the first year come from predoctoral practicum or internship while the second has to follow the degree. The licensing board is the Idaho State Board of Psychologist Examiners, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Idaho ranks all one with the state’s licensing rules.

BLS puts the licensing rule this way: “In most states, practicing psychology or using the title of ‘psychologist’ requires licensure.” (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, read October 14, 2026). The steps from a doctorate to a license, with Idaho’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Idaho.