Glaziers in Utah

A hard hat, safety glasses and tool belt beside timber house framing.

May 2025 wages · tax year 2026

You keep

$41,246

after federal, FICA and Utah tax

Tax takes

$10,224

19.9% of the whole

Worth, in national money

$43,416

Utah costs less than average

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

$51,470

Kept after tax

$41,246

Worth in national money

$43,416

State rank

29

of 50 states

What this pays, and what it is worth

  • Middling, nationally. Utah pays glaziers around $51,470 at the midpoint, 29 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
  • Middle of the local pack. Of 487 occupations Utah reports figures for, this is number 290.
  • Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $51,470 you keep $41,246 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $43,416 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $54,850, since top earners drag the number up.
  • For glaziers the Utah median is $51,470, ranking 29 of 50 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.
  • In Utah's occupational distribution, glaziers sits at 290 of 487 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
  • Retained pay in Utah is $41,246 after the full tax stack, from $51,470. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $43,416 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $54,850 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.

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Pay band: Glaziers

The state median for this job

50thpercentile, roughly
Lowest tenth earn under$45,160
Half earn under$51,470
Top tenth earn over$66,170
This salary$51,470

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

Compare with
+$2,290take-home per year in Texas
Take-home in Utah$41,246
Take-home in Texas$43,536
Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity+$1,386

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

Moving to
$0now · $51,470$49,794
$49,794in Texas, for the same life
To match take-home only$48,619
You could take a cut of−$1,676
Prices in Texas97 vs 95

State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.

Sources and assumptions
  • Treat $51,470 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,160 and the ninetieth is $66,170 — 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 $41,246, worked from $51,470. 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 290 of 487.
  • The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $43,416 uses one figure for the whole of Utah. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 487 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 290.
  • The Utah median of $51,470 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,160 to $66,170. 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 $41,246, on $51,470 for work ranking 290 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 290 of 487 in the state.
  • Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $43,416, worked from $51,470, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Utah address, on work sitting at 290 of 487 locally.

Questions people ask

Is this the average pay for the job?

No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $54,850, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.

How much does pay for this job actually vary?

Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $45,160 at the tenth percentile, $66,170 at the ninetieth.

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 $43,416 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.

Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?

Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Utah adds its own income tax on top — which is why $41,246 of this wage survives to your account.

Why is this job missing from some states?

A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.

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 $54,850. 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 ($45,160 to $66,170) 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 $43,416 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 $41,246 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.