Data Entry Specialist salary in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

Pay in Salt Lake City-Murray against Utah and the US

The middle half of data entry specialists in Salt Lake City-Murray earns $40,250–$67,250. The top tenth earns $69,430 or more, 1.9 times the bottom tenth, close to the US pattern of 1.9 times. The mean ($51,860) is 9% 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 $27,000 wide, wider than in Utah as a whole ($22,970) and the US ($12,650), so what a data entry specialist earns in Salt Lake City-Murray depends more on the employer.

What to budget for a data entry specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $19,690 over the median, the 25th only $7,310 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $25,406 a year in employer cost. 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 $41,340 falls between the 25th percentile and the median in Salt Lake City-Murray, and the Utah statewide median of $47,180 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Salt Lake City-Murray

At the $47,560 median, a local hire costs about $61,368 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,808 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 Salt Lake City-Murray

Of the 17 roles we track in Salt Lake City-Murray, this one ranks #13 by median pay, between administrative assistants ($47,910) and medical administrative assistants ($46,950). Project Coordinator is the highest at $98,000.

Measured against the US median, this job is the best paid of the 17 roles we track in Salt Lake City-Murray (+15.0%); marketing specialists come last (-17.9%). The typical role here is at -1.9%, so, measured against the US, data entry specialists cost more in Salt Lake City-Murray than the area's general pay level would suggest. Data entry specialists hold 1.5% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, 1.1% across Utah and 0.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Utah

Across the 6 areas of Utah with data for this job, the median runs from $34,850 in Logan to $47,560 in Salt Lake City-Murray, a gap of $12,710 a year. No other area in Utah has as many data entry specialists, and all 5 others pay less.

Salt Lake City-Murray against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Salt Lake City-Murray is #11 of 389 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job and one of the better-paying ones. Outside Utah, Honolulu and Boston-Cambridge pay just above Salt Lake City-Murray and Bangor and Twin Falls just below. All four are within $390 a year of the median in Salt Lake City-Murray. Of the three markets with about as many data entry specialists, one pays more.

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