Anesthesiologist Salary in Utah 2026,
$391,490 Median | BLS Data by City

BLS does not publish a Utah figure for anaesthesiologists — the state cell is at or above the OEWS publication ceiling of $239,200 a year and is therefore suppressed. The number shown here, $391,490 a year or $188.22 an hour, is the national median from the same BLS OEWS May 2025 release, with a national band of $101,460 to $557,130. There is no Utah median to quote.

None — BLS publishes no metro figure for this occupation in Utah. Salt Lake City-Murray, Provo-Orem-Lehi and Ogden are all unpublished for SOC 29-1211, for the same reason the state cell is: the wages sit at or above the OEWS publication ceiling. Any city-level Utah anaesthesiology figure circulating elsewhere does not come from this survey.

Because the OEWS survey stops reporting wage values at a publication ceiling of $239,200 a year. Where an occupation's wages in a given area sit at or above that ceiling, the cell is flagged rather than valued, and no median or percentile is released. Anaesthesiology triggers this in many states. It is a limitation of the survey's reporting rules, not a gap in the underlying data collection, and it applies to Utah's state cell and to all three of its metro cells.

One thing with confidence and one thing not at all. With confidence: Utah anaesthesiology wages sit at or above the $239,200 OEWS ceiling. Not at all: whether they sit above or below the national median of $391,490 — the suppression carries no directional information beyond the ceiling. The published comparators in states BLS does report, from Alabama $392,350 to Maryland $418,010, suggest the specialty clusters fairly tightly around the national figure, but that is inference rather than a Utah measurement.

Through the Utah Division of Professional Licensing and its Physicians Licensing Board: a degree from an accredited medical school, completion of accredited postgraduate training, the USMLE or COMLEX examination sequence and a controlled-substances registration, with continuing education at renewal. For anaesthesiology specifically, completion of an accredited residency and American Board of Anesthesiology certification are what hospital credentialing committees in the Salt Lake City, Provo-Orem-Lehi and Ogden markets will require, even though board certification is not itself a DOPL licensure condition.

Because the alternative is worse. BLS does not release a Utah median for anaesthesiologists, so the choice is between reporting the national figure with the substitution stated openly, or publishing a number that no source supports. The policy here is the first: every figure on this page — the $391,490 median, the $101,460 to $557,130 band, the $188.22 hourly rate — is national, drawn from the same BLS OEWS May 2025 release, and labelled as such. Nothing on this page is a Utah measurement.

It may be wrong in either direction and there is no way to tell from this survey. Utah's cost of living is near the national average and its health-care market is concentrated around a small number of large systems, which are the kinds of factors that could push either way. The suppression tells us only that the figure exceeds $239,200. A physician negotiating in Utah should treat the $391,490 national median as a reference point and rely on specialty compensation surveys and local group data for anything more precise.

Subspecialty, call burden and practice structure. Cardiac, paediatric and pain-medicine subspecialties, and heavy overnight and weekend call, are what separate the national median of $391,490 from the $490,530 seventy-fifth percentile and the $557,130 ninetieth. Employment model matters as much: an independent group with partnership economics distributes income differently from a hospital-employed post. In Utah specifically, the flat 4.65% state income tax means none of that additional income is taxed at a higher state rate than the base.