History Teachers, Postsecondary in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,703
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$19,047
23.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,002
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
$81,750
Kept after tax
$62,703
Worth in national money
$66,002
State rank
21
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Utah is 21 of 45 states for this job, with a middle wage of $81,750. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Utah this is well-paid work. Of 487 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 107 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Here is where Utah does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $81,750 you keep $62,703, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $66,002 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $88,570, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Utah ranks 21 of 45 for history teachers, postsecondary at $81,750. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Ranked against every occupation Utah publishes a median for, history teachers, postsecondary sits 107 of 487 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After federal, FICA and Utah income tax, retained pay for history teachers, postsecondary on $81,750 is $62,703. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $66,002 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $88,570 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: History Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $106,070 |
| This salary | $81,750 |
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 | $62,703 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,341 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,268 |
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 | $76,579 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,132 |
| 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 history teachers, postsecondary in Utah earn under $81,750 and half over. The published range runs $63,530 at the tenth percentile to $106,070 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $62,703 take-home in Utah comes from $81,750. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 107 of 487.
- Two cautions on $66,002, the adjusted value of that $81,750 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Utah. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 107 of 487 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for history teachers, postsecondary in Utah, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $63,530 to $106,070; 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.
- Retained pay of $62,703, from $81,750, assumes a single Utah filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 107 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 45 for it.
- This $66,002 adjusted figure, worked from $81,750, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 107 of 487 in the state. The occupation ranks 107 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 $88,570 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $63,530 and the top tenth $106,070, so most people doing this work in Utah sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $66,002 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, $62,703 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 45 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 $88,570. 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 ($63,530 to $106,070) 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 $66,002 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 $62,703 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.