Idaho requires payment by the next regular payday or within ten business days of your last day, whichever is sooner. A written demand can pull that to 48 hours.
Law: Idaho Code §45-606 · Rules checked October 2026
The same earlier-of deadline — next payday or ten business days — applies when you quit, and a written demand can shorten it to 48 hours.
Idaho sets no automatic per-day penalty, but a written demand has teeth here: after one, unpaid wages can carry added damages in a claim or court action.
Your state lets the employer's own policy decide. If the handbook or your offer letter promises payout of accrued vacation — or the company has a practice of paying it — that promise is enforceable. If the policy says unused vacation is forfeited at separation, the state will generally hold you to it.
The free claim goes to Idaho Department of Labor. It costs nothing and you do not need a lawyer; what you need is the amount computed, the demand already sent where your state rewards one, and the file assembled.
Filing window: set by state law and shorter than people expect — file within weeks, not months.
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General information from the published statute — not legal advice. Penalty figures elsewhere on this site are statutory maximums, with willfulness conditions named where the statute names them.