
IDAHO SMALL
BUSINESS MARKETING
---- OUR WHY
WHY IDAHO SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING EXISTS.
I decided to start Idaho Small Business Marketing because I believe small businesses are one the best shots Idahoan's have to proper their families and achieve a genuine sense of purpose and pride in their work. I can think of very few things as satisfying as growing a business from the ground up. But disruptive changes in AI technology, competition, tariffs, legislation and demographics are making it very challenging to succeed.
411,600 SMALL BUSINESS JOBS IN IDAH0 WITH 20.7 BILLION IN PAYROLL
Those number are truly significant but there is a huge underlying story that isn't so pretty!
Small Business
Large Business (500+)
Idaho Small vs. Large Business - Jobs $ Payroll (2026 Est.)
Employment
411,600 jobs (56%)
323,400 jobs (44%)
Annual Payroll
$20.72 Billion (47.3%)
$23.08 Billion (52.7%)
Avg. Pay per Worker
$50,334
$71,375
Small businesses hold 56% of Idaho's private-sector jobs but only 47.3% of payroll dollars — an estimated $3.8 billion payroll gap, driven by a ~$21,041 lower average annual wage per worker.
Source: 2026 estimate applying 2022 U.S. Census Bureau (Statistics of U.S. Businesses) / U.S. SBA Office of Advocacy small-business shares (56.0% of jobs, 47.3% of payroll) to current Idaho employment and wage totals from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (CES) and Idaho Department of Labor (QCEW). Modeled estimate, not directly reported