Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,464
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$12,516
20.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,013
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
$60,980
Kept after tax
$48,464
Worth in national money
$51,013
State rank
14
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Utah is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $60,980, which ranks 14 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 2.83% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Utah, this sits in the middle: 223 of 487 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $60,980 you keep $48,464 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $51,013 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $67,970, since top earners drag the number up.
- Utah ranks 14 of 50 states publishing a median for education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare, at $60,980 — about 2.83% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare ranks 223 of 487 occupations in Utah by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay in Utah is $48,464 after the full tax stack, from $60,980. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $51,013 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $67,970 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,230 |
| This salary | $60,980 |
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 | $48,464 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,177 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,652 |
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 | $57,603 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,998 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare in Utah earn under $60,980 and half over. The published range runs $40,190 at the tenth percentile to $102,230 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Utah's $48,464, worked from $60,980. 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 223 of 487.
- One number stands for prices across all of Utah, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $51,013, the adjusted value of that $60,980 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 223 of 487 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare in Utah, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,190 to $102,230; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Utah take-home of $48,464, on $60,980 for work ranking 223 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 223 of 487 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Utah, so $51,013 — the adjusted value of that $60,980 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 223 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 $67,970 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $40,190 and the top tenth $102,230 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Utah sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $51,013 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $48,464 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 50 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 $67,970. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($40,190) and the ninetieth ($102,230) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $51,013 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 $48,464 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.