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title: "Average Salary in Salt Lake City, UT"
description: "Mean $71,660, median $55,240 in the Salt Lake City metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $71,660, median $55,240 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 826,210 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $54,760.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $31,730 |
| 25th | $39,050 |
| 50th | $55,240 |
| 75th | $83,050 |
| 90th | $129,910 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 100.9 |
| Housing (rents) | 123.3 |
| Goods | 96.4 |
| Utilities | 79.0 |
| Other services | 99.0 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Airline Pilot](https://nuecareer.com/careers/airline-pilot): $218,110
- [Allergist and Immunologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/allergist-and-immunologist): $215,990
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $202,740
- [Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary): $189,920
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $179,440
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $178,800
- [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer): $177,200
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $168,460
- [Naturopathic Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/naturopathic-physician): $167,690
- [Cardiovascular Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cardiovascular-technologist-and-technician): $167,170

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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