Radiologist Salary in Utah 2026,
$417,250 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Utah figure is $417,250 a year, or $200.60 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 0.9% below the national median of $420,860. The band runs from $165,740 at the 10th percentile to $450,010 at the 90th. Salt Lake City-Murray publishes $449,940, well above the statewide figure, reflecting where the state's academic and tertiary radiology capacity is concentrated.

Because both are reported at $450,010, which is what happens when a large share of an occupation's wages sit at or above the top of the range BLS distinguishes in its published estimates. The upper percentiles converge on the same value. It should be read as 'a substantial part of this population earns at or above this figure' rather than as a ceiling — the data simply stops separating them at that point.

Salt Lake City-Murray at $449,940, which is above the statewide median of $417,250. BLS does not publish a Provo-Orem-Lehi row for this occupation. Salt Lake City is where Utah's academic medicine, tertiary hospitals and large imaging groups are, and it functions as a referral centre for a wide intermountain catchment, which sustains subspecialty radiology demand.

A physician licence from the Division of Professional Licensing. Utah issues one licence covering all physician practice with no radiology-specific credential; subspecialty practice rests on ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship training, American Board of Radiology certification and hospital credentialing. Reading studies performed in Utah requires a Utah licence regardless of where the radiologist is physically located, which matters for teleradiology arrangements.

Because residents and fellows are counted on the same row as attending radiologists. The $165,740 tenth percentile is a training figure, not an attending one, and its presence is exactly what you would expect in a state with an academic medical centre running radiology residency and fellowship programmes. A board-certified radiologist should reason from the $357,600 twenty-fifth percentile upward.

That BLS has reached the limit of what it publishes rather than the limit of what Utah radiologists earn. The published 75th and 90th percentiles are both $450,010, which is the signature of an occupation whose upper distribution sits at or beyond the top of the range the survey distinguishes. The information content is real but limited: it says a substantial share of Utah's 380 radiologists earn at or above that figure, and it says nothing about how far above. For a radiologist negotiating a position, the practical consequence is that public wage data stops being useful at exactly the point where it would matter most, and the substitutes — specialty compensation surveys, group-level disclosure during recruitment, and the structure of partnership arrangements — carry the weight instead.

Because Salt Lake City serves a catchment far larger than Utah. A location quotient of 1.28 across 380 radiologists means the specialty is more concentrated here than nationally, which for a state of Utah's population requires an explanation beyond local demand. The explanation is referral geography: Salt Lake City is the tertiary and quaternary centre for a wide intermountain region with a small, dispersed population, and complex imaging, subspecialty interpretation and interventional procedures for that region are performed there. Add an academic medical centre with residency and fellowship programmes, and the state supports a radiology workforce sized for a much larger population than it has. That is also why Salt Lake City-Murray publishes $449,940 against a statewide $417,250.

On three things the wage data cannot resolve. First, the employment model — academic, hospital-employed or private group with a partnership track — since the long-run difference between them typically exceeds any state-to-state wage difference, and Utah has all three. Second, subspecialty demand: interventional radiology, neuroradiology and breast imaging have distinct local markets, and in a state with 380 radiologists a single group's needs can dominate a niche. Third, the tax position, which is genuinely favourable — a flat 4.65% state rate on radiologist income is a material advantage over the high-tax states, and it should be modelled rather than assumed. Call structure and whether overnight reads are outsourced complete the picture, since they determine quality of life more than the published percentiles do.