Accountant salary in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Pay in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against Utah and the US

Pay is more spread out here than nationally: the top tenth earns $132,260 or more, 2.9 times the bottom tenth, against 2.6 times across the US. Two offers for the same title can sit far apart. The middle half of accountants in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area earns $59,990–$105,000. The mean ($88,040) is 10% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $45,010 wide, wider than in Utah as a whole ($42,230) and the US ($42,790), so what a accountant earns in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an accountant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $20,160 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $24,850, or about $32,065 once benefits are added. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $83,680 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, and the Utah statewide median of $79,990 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

At the $80,150 median, a local hire costs about $103,419 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $23,269 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area

Of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after project coordinators ($83,540); recruiters come next at $67,370.

Measured against the US median, accountants rank #6 of the 14 roles we track in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area (-4.2%), between payroll specialists (-3.1%) and bookkeepers (-9.5%). The typical role here is at -9.5%, so, measured against the US, accountants cost more in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area than the area's general pay level would suggest. Accountants hold 8.8% of the jobs in these 14 roles in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, 8.1% across Utah and 9.3% nationally. That is close to the national mix.

Other areas in Utah

Across the 7 areas of Utah with data for this job, the median runs from $70,530 in St. George to $82,100 in Salt Lake City-Murray, a gap of $11,570 a year. Of the 6 areas in Utah with more accountants than the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area, 4 pay less, the largest of them Provo-Orem, UT ($75,700), the High Desert Utah nonmetro area ($75,580) and St. George, UT ($70,530).

the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area is #368 of 521 US areas for this job. It is a mid-sized market, and its pay is in the top quarter of US areas. Outside Utah, Greensboro-High Point and Odessa pay just above the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area and Ann Arbor and Kansas City just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in the Wasatch Front Fringe Utah nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many accountants, none pays as much.

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