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Boise ) is the capital and most populous city of the State of Idaho. Boise was given its name after French-Canadian trappers first explored the area after crossing the arid desert plains. Finding green trees at the site, primarily cottonwoods along the river, they named it boisé . Boise has consequently been given the nickname City of Trees. The original Fort Boise was west, down the Boise River, near the confluence with the Snake River at the Oregon border. This fort was erected by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1830s. It was abandoned in the 1850s, but massacres along the Oregon Trail prompted the U.S. Army to re-establish a fort in the area in 1863, during the U.S. Civil War. The new location was selected because it was near the intersection of the Oregon Trail and a major road connecting the Boise Basin and the Owyhee mining areas, both booming at the time. Idaho City was the largest city in the area, but the new Fort Boise grew rapidly and Boise was incorporated...more

Boise is the headquarters of Idaho Power, Boise , Micron Technology, Simplot, Idaho Pacific Lumber Company, WinCo Foods, and Idaho Timber Corporation. Hewlett-Packard has a large complex in Boise which specializes in scanners and printers and is one of the largest private employers in the area, second only to Micron. Other high-tech employers include Bodybuilding.com, Crucial.com, MarkMonitor, Blackfin, Treetop Tech, Keynetics, Sybase and Microsoft. Technology investment has become increasingly important to the city. For example, Keynetics Inc., a Boise-based technology incubator, operates a portfolio of companies including the Internet retailer ClickBank, and PayTrack, a provider of payment processing and fraud control solutions to merchants. Boise also has thriving in-bound technical call centers like Teleperformance USA which boasts clients such as Apple and AT&T. Qwest, T-Mobile, and DirecTV also are major players in the local call-center industry in Boise. Varney Airlines,...more

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Among the most common occupations in Boise are Management, professional, and related occupations, 36%. Sales and office occupations, 26%. and Service occupations, 16%. Approximately 71 percent of workers in Boise, Idaho work for companies, 14 percent work for the government and 9 percent are self-employed.

Currently, the most commonly listed Boise Jobs are for assistant manager jobs, physical therapist jobs, rn jobs, nurse rn jobs, project manager jobs and sales representative jobs.

The leading industries in Boise, Idaho are Educational services, and health care, and social assistance, 19%; Professional, scientific, and management, and administrative and waste management services, 12%; and Manufacturing, 10%. Simply Hired's Boise job listings indicate that the following industries in Boise are hiring the most workers: Hospitals, Clinics & Outpatient Services, Computer Equipment Mfg, Computer Makers and Outpatient Surgery Centers.

According to government data, the average salary for jobs in Boise, Idaho is $35,835, and the median income of households in Boise was $46,342.

Boise has an unemployment rate of 6.2%, compared the national average of 6.9%.

According to our Boise Trends data, the number of Boise, Idaho jobs has decreased by 33% since November 2006.

Population of Boise Total population 191,667 Male 50.31% Female 49.69% Median age 35.2     Boise Housing Owner-occupied homes 62.7% Median cost of a home $153,700 Median mortgage payment $802 Renter-occupied homes 37.3% Vacant housing 4.7% Median monthly rent $647     Average Income Median for all workers $26,127 Median for all male full-time $40,219 Median for all female full-time $31,451     Household Income Less than $10,000 7% $10,000 to $14,999 5% $15,000 to $24,999 11% $25,000 to $34,999 12% $35,000 to $49,999 18% $50,000 to $74,999 22% $75,000 to $99,999 11% $100,000 to $149,999 9% $150,000 to $199,999 2% $200,000 or more 2%

Education Less than 9th grade 3% 9th to 12th grade, no diploma 5% High school graduate 24% Some college, no degree 28% Associate's degree 7% Bachelor's degree 22% Graduate degree 11%     Marital Status Never married 26% Currently married 54% Separated 1% Widowed 4% Divorced 14%     Race White 95% Black or African American 1% Asian 2% Other 2%     Boise Commute Carpool 10.3% Public transportation 0.9% Average travel time 18 minutes

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