Electrician Salary in Utah 2026,
$62,000 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $62,000 a year, or $29.81 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — only 1.9% below the national median of $63,190. The middle half falls between $48,360 and $79,310 and the full band runs $39,940 to $89,110. That two-to-one spread from bottom to top is one of the widest in this data and reflects Utah's genuine licence tier structure.

Salt Lake City-Murray at $62,620, essentially level with Ogden at $62,030, then Provo-Orem-Lehi $60,860, Logan $58,070 and St. George $56,510. About six thousand dollars separates the whole table — trivial against a band nearly fifty thousand dollars wide. In Utah, licence tier and sector determine pay far more than location does.

Through the Utah Division of Professional Licensing at the Department of Commerce. Utah registers apprentices, then licenses journeymen and masters on documented on-the-job hours plus classroom instruction and a written examination, with residential-specific licences available alongside the general ones and separate contractor licensure for those who contract. The licence is statewide, and Utah maintains reciprocity arrangements with several neighbouring states, which makes it more portable than most.

The published band gives the shape: the median at $62,000 against a 75th percentile of $79,310 and a 90th of $89,110. Master licensure with crew responsibility and, for many, electrical contractor licensure is what occupies that upper range. A gap of roughly twenty-seven thousand dollars between the median and the 90th percentile is a strong return on working through the tiers, and it is considerably larger than the spread available from changing city or employer at the same licence level.

On the numbers, yes. A median within two per cent of the national figure, a location quotient of 1.36 meaning about 11,450 posts, a flat 4.65% income tax with no local income tax, and a band reaching $89,110 at the top all point the same way. Sustained Wasatch Front construction, data centre investment and semiconductor plant work support the demand. The constraint is housing: Salt Lake, Provo and Ogden costs have risen faster than this wage over the past decade.

Because the variance in this occupation comes from the licence ladder rather than from geography, and Utah has a real ladder. An apprentice near the $39,940 tenth percentile and a master electrician near the $89,110 ninetieth are doing different work with different legal authority, and the Division of Professional Licensing defines the difference formally through documented hours, classroom instruction and examinations. Location adds about six thousand dollars across the entire state; the tier structure adds nearly fifty. For anyone planning a career in Utah, that ratio is the single most useful piece of information on this page.

It reports wages as paid, so the overtime typical of construction and shutdown schedules is inside the number rather than beside it. It counts employees, so self-employed electricians and owner-operators running service work in Utah fall outside the survey entirely — a meaningful omission in a state with a large residential service market. And it is a statewide figure measured against Wasatch Front housing costs, which have diverged sharply from wages over the past decade.

Licence tier first and by an enormous margin — the apprentice to journeyman to master progression is what the fifty-thousand-dollar band measures. Sector second: commercial, data centre, semiconductor and industrial plant work above residential, roughly the distance from the $48,360 twenty-fifth percentile to the $62,000 median and beyond. Controls and instrumentation competence third, which is what the state's manufacturing and data centre employers compete for. Contractor licensure and crew responsibility fourth, which is what the $89,110 ninetieth percentile describes. Geography is nearly irrelevant here.