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

The BLS row covering this trade is Electricians, which publishes a Utah median of $62,000 a year, or $29.81 an hour, per OEWS May 2025 — 1.9% below the national median of $63,190. The row counts apprentices, residential and unlimited journeymen and master electricians together, so a licensed journeyman should read the upper half of the band, from the $62,000 midpoint toward the $79,310 seventy-fifth percentile, rather than the median alone.

Through the Division of Professional Licensing. An apprentice registers, works under a licensed electrician and accumulates several thousand documented on-the-job hours — typically across about four years — alongside classroom instruction, then sits the journeyman examination. Utah also issues narrower residential journeyman and residential master licences limited to dwellings. Renewal carries continuing education on the National Electrical Code.

Scope, and therefore earnings. The residential journeyman licence is limited to work on dwellings and is quicker to reach; the unlimited journeyman licence permits work across commercial and industrial installations as well. Since Utah's best-paid electrical work is in commercial construction, industrial facilities and data centres, the residential tier effectively caps an electrician in the lower half of this wage band.

Salt Lake City-Murray at $62,620, then Ogden $62,030, Provo-Orem-Lehi $60,860, Logan $58,070 and St. George $56,510. The Wasatch Front leads, and the gap to Logan and St. George reflects the concentration of commercial, industrial and data centre construction along the corridor rather than a cost-of-living difference.

It is a busy one. A location quotient of 1.36 across 11,450 jobs means Utah employs electricians well above the national rate for its size, driven by among the fastest household growth in the country and by data centre and technology facility construction along the Wasatch Front. The median sits 1.9% below the national figure, but the flat 4.65% income tax means overtime is not taxed at a higher marginal rate, which suits an hours-driven trade.

Because Utah operates a genuinely tiered system and BLS does not. The state issues registered apprentice status, a residential journeyman licence, an unlimited journeyman licence, residential and unlimited master licences, and a separate contractor licence — five or six meaningfully different legal positions — and SOC 47-2111 puts all of the individuals holding them on one row. That is why the band spans from $39,940 to $89,110 while the metro figures span barely six thousand dollars. Geography explains almost nothing about an individual Utah electrician's pay; the licence explains most of it. The practical reading is that anyone using this page should locate their own tier first, then read the corresponding part of the band, and treat the $62,000 median as the midpoint of a mixed population rather than as a going rate.

Three things, running together. Utah has among the highest household formation rates in the country, and the residential construction that follows it is electrical work by definition. Commercial and institutional construction has followed the population — schools, healthcare, retail and distribution. And the technology sector's physical footprint in the Salt Lake City and Utah County corridors, including data centres and fabrication facilities, is unusually electrically intensive per square foot and runs on schedules that generate sustained overtime. Against all of that, the apprenticeship takes about four years and cannot be shortened, which is why Utah employs electricians at 1.36 times the national rate and still has contractors competing for licensed people.

As a decision with a long tail. The residential journeyman licence is reachable sooner and lets an electrician work independently on dwellings, which in a state building this many houses means immediate, steady work. The cost is that it excludes commercial and industrial installations — precisely the work that pays toward the $79,310 seventy-fifth percentile and the $89,110 ninetieth, and precisely the work that data centre and technology construction generates. An electrician who takes the residential route and later wants the unlimited licence generally has to accumulate the additional qualifying experience anyway. For someone certain they want residential service work and the flexibility of a small operation, it is a reasonable choice; for anyone else, the unlimited licence is the one worth waiting for.