Boise City, ID (population: 210,099) has seven vocational schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. The College of Idaho, the highest ranked school in this group with a vocational program, has a total student population of 1,013. It is the 384th highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of Idaho (#1 is University of Idaho).
Vocational students from Boise City schools who go on to become vocational educators, event planners, landscape architects, landscape designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 114,420 people working as vocational education teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $52,030. Also, Middle school teachers make on average $53,550 per year and there are about 665,420 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Boise City-Nampa area alone, there are ** employed middle school teachers earning an average salary of $39,970. Vocational education teachers in this area earn $42,290/yr and there are 180 employed.
Boise City lies in Ada county, which is one of the 33 counties in Idaho. Overall, the Boise City-Nampa area has 264,010 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $19/hr average worker wage, and a $39,600 average annual salary. Thus, about 1 out of every 1000 jobs in Boise City are held by vocational education teachers, and **/1000 are held by middle school teachers.
Of the 7 vocational schools with a 100-mile radius of Boise City, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Idaho Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,120/yr) for vocational students, with Treasure Valley Community College as the lowest, reported at only $7,355/yr.