Prices, pay, taxes, homes and family budgets, county by county, from the same official data the site's calculators use.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis measures price levels in every state against a national average of 100. Utah scores 98.9 overall, so a $75,000 salary at average US prices buys what $74,148 buys here. Compare any salary with another state.
| Price level | Utah (US = 100) | Rank, most expensive first |
|---|---|---|
| Everything | 98.9 | 21st of 51 |
| Rents | 107.8 | 15th of 51 |
| Goods | 96.4 | — |
| Other services | 99.0 | — |
Home electricity averaged 12.22 cents a kilowatt-hour in 2024, against 17.06 across all states. A gallon of regular gas cost $4.37 at the end of August 2026, against $4.12.
Across all 1,735,590 jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts in Utah, the median pay is $50,110 a year, or $24.09 an hour; that ranks 24th of the 50 states and DC. One worker in ten earns less than $30,040 and one in ten more than $119,990.
Utah taxes wages at a flat 4.45%. The brackets in Utah. A single filer on the median $50,110, with no retirement or health deductions, takes home about $40,213 a year, or $1,547 every two weeks, after $3,833 of federal income tax, $3,833 of Social Security and Medicare and $2,230 of state income tax. Work out your own paycheck in Utah.
The five occupations employing the most people, with their median annual pay:
| Occupation | Jobs | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 52,340 | $28,670 |
| Retail Salespersons | 47,570 | $33,900 |
| Customer Service Representatives | 44,490 | $43,140 |
| General and Operations Managers | 42,580 | $97,850 |
| Office Clerks, General | 36,470 | $44,060 |
Of the 20 largest occupations, the best paid are software developers ($128,810), general and operations managers ($97,850), project management specialists ($96,720). See what common jobs pay in every state.
Across the 28 Utah counties with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $454,401, and across the 14 with their own rent figure the median typical rent is $1,742 a month. A typical home costs 4.82 years of the county's median family income, at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $3,543 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $151,837 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The median family can afford its own county's typical home in 0.0% of Utah's counties, against 44.9% of counties nationally. Try it with your own income.
At the median county, home values changed +2.9% over the past year and +22.1% over five years, and rents +1.8% over the past year.
The most expensive Utah counties are Summit County ($1,323,633), Wasatch County ($948,250) and Morgan County ($744,516); the least expensive are Garfield County ($242,466), Carbon County ($285,525) and Emery County ($305,870).
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county: housing, food, transport, healthcare, childcare, other necessities and taxes. In the median Utah county, that comes to $50,951 a year for one adult and $115,039 for two adults and two children, of which $17,843 is childcare. The national averages are $47,367 and $101,771. Median family income in the median county is $88,278.
| Two adults, two children | Per year, median county | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | $12,144 | $1,012 |
| Food | $11,916 | $993 |
| Transportation | $21,261 | $1,772 |
| Healthcare | $24,593 | $2,049 |
| Childcare | $17,843 | $1,487 |
| Other necessities | $7,449 | $621 |
| Taxes | $19,124 | $1,594 |
Each line is its own median across counties, so the lines do not add up exactly to the total.
The Department of Education's College Scorecard lists 62 colleges in Utah, 18 of them public. The median public college reports a cost of attendance of $17,726 a year, covering tuition, housing, books and other expenses. Ten years after enrolling, the median school's former students earn $36,048. Compare degrees and schools.
| Beaver County | $319,144 | +6.1% | — | $95,682 | $113,254 |
| Box Elder County | $450,907 | +1.5% | $1,330 | $90,848 | $108,586 |
| Cache County | $474,214 | +2.8% | $1,451 | $88,982 | $116,329 |
| Carbon County | $285,525 | +3.2% | — | $73,060 | $109,779 |
| Daggett County | $373,609 | +6.4% | — | $86,875 | $116,867 |
| Davis County | $561,231 | +2.7% | $1,771 | $119,893 | $120,253 |
| Duchesne County | $375,737 | +4.4% | — | $82,935 | $111,709 |
| Emery County | $305,870 | +7.2% | — | $88,278 | $111,139 |
| Garfield County | $242,466 | +2.4% | — | $77,473 | $114,344 |
| Grand County | $587,681 | −1.8% | $1,875 | $83,819 | $122,636 |
| Iron County | $414,507 | +2.5% | $1,480 | $82,149 | $116,030 |
| Juab County | $459,103 | +3.5% | — | $98,022 | $114,873 |
| Kane County | $432,715 | +3.3% | — | $103,321 | $123,817 |
| Millard County | $344,584 | +3.0% | — | $78,140 | $112,789 |
| Morgan County | $744,516 | +1.9% | $3,400 | $132,965 | $127,622 |
| Piute County | — | — | — | $63,125 | $115,039 |
| Rich County | $609,840 | +4.2% | — | $85,688 | $113,083 |
| Salt Lake County | $574,561 | +1.5% | $1,646 | $111,905 | $120,302 |
| San Juan County | $365,780 | +2.1% | — | $63,207 | $117,268 |
| Sanpete County | $398,001 | +7.0% | — | $73,186 | $117,901 |
| Sevier County | $342,744 | +4.4% | — | $82,150 | $111,347 |
| Summit County | $1,323,633 | +4.1% | $3,369 | $156,048 | $134,394 |
| Tooele County | $482,217 | −0.2% | $1,713 | $111,591 | $111,274 |
| Uintah County | $360,673 | +4.6% | $1,502 | $86,458 | $111,771 |
| Utah County | $546,284 | +1.9% | $1,823 | $106,263 | $113,956 |
| Wasatch County | $948,250 | +1.3% | $2,964 | $126,215 | $118,722 |
| Washington County | $528,886 | −1.1% | $1,878 | $94,340 | $127,429 |
| Wayne County | $457,894 | +3.0% | — | $74,972 | $112,929 |
| Weber County | $462,955 | +0.9% | $1,480 | $99,029 | $115,676 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Home values and rents are Zillow's own county figures only; counties Zillow does not cover are left blank rather than filled with a state average.
Salt Lake City, UT (typical rent $1,647), Ogden, UT (typical rent $1,631), Provo, UT (typical rent $1,823).
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County figures are medians across Utah's counties, each counting once, so they describe the spread of places rather than of people. Property tax and insurance vary widely; the calculators let you use your own.