Salt Lake County · Utah
Salt Lake City, UT jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Salt Lake City, UT earn a median of $42,718 a year, 4% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 3.8% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 26.8% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $42,718#44 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 3.8%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 72.9%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 121,274Civilian employed, age 16+
What Salt Lake City does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance26.8%
- Professional, scientific & management15.1%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food9.9%
- Retail trade9.4%
- Manufacturing8.8%
- Finance, insurance & real estate7.6%
- Construction5.3%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities4.7%
- Other services, except public administration4.2%
- Public administration3.8%
- Information2.6%
- Wholesale trade1.5%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.5%
Related data for Salt Lake City
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.
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