The Idaho Supreme Court building in downtown Boise. (Courtesy of the Idaho Supreme Court)
The Idaho Supreme Court will ask the Idaho Legislature for a significant increase in judges’ salaries when the state’s annual legislative session convenes next week.
On Thursday, the Idaho Supreme Court released a proposal for increased salaries for Idaho judges and a report on judicial salaries among neighboring states in the West . The report stated salaries for Idaho Supreme Court justices ranked 50th among the United States and its territories in a July 2024 survey published by the National Center for State Courts.
The Idaho Supreme Court proposes setting salaries for Idaho Supreme Court justices in law at $215,00 per year, up from the current level of $169,508. If approved by the Idaho Legislature, that would represent an increase of nearly 27%.
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The proposal calls for setting other judicial salaries based on the salary of an Idaho Supreme Court justice.