Demonstrators and Product Promoters in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,235
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$7,045
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,878
Utah costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Utah — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$38,280
Kept after tax
$31,235
Worth in national money
$32,878
State rank
20
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Utah pays this job around $38,280 at the midpoint, 20 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 487 occupations Utah publishes, this job lands at 426. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $38,280 you keep $31,235 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $32,878 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $39,880, since top earners drag the number up.
- For demonstrators and product promoters the Utah median is $38,280, ranking 20 of 48 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Utah, this work ranks 426 of 487 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Utah is $31,235 after the full tax stack, from $38,280. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $32,878 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $39,880 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Demonstrators and Product Promoters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,120 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $49,280 |
| This salary | $38,280 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Utah | $31,235 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,938 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,018 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $36,160 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,231 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $38,280 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,120 and the ninetieth is $49,280 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Utah's $31,235, worked from $38,280. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 426 of 487.
- One number stands for prices across all of Utah, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $32,878, the adjusted value of that $38,280 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 426 of 487 in the state.
- The Utah median of $38,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,120 to $49,280. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Utah take-home of $31,235, on $38,280 for work ranking 426 of 487 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 426 of 487 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Utah, so $32,878 — the adjusted value of that $38,280 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 426 of 487 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $39,880 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,120 at the tenth percentile, $49,280 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $32,878.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Utah's own levy, $31,235 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Utah is $39,880. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,120 to $49,280) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Utah rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Utah's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $32,878 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $31,235 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Utah income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.