Instructional Coordinators in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,107
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$13,673
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,848
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
$65,780
Kept after tax
$52,107
Worth in national money
$54,848
State rank
38
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for instructional coordinators is on the low side in Utah. The middle earner gets $65,780. That is 38 of 51 states, and about 15.06% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Instructional coordinators ranks 175 among 487 occupations Utah publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $65,780 you keep $52,107 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $54,848 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $70,340, since top earners drag the number up.
- For instructional coordinators, Utah sits in the lower band at $65,780, ranking 38 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 15.06%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 175 of 487 in Utah places instructional coordinators in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Utah is $52,107 after the full tax stack, from $65,780. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,848 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $70,340 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Instructional Coordinators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,280 |
| This salary | $65,780 |
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 | $52,107 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,034 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,786 |
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 | $62,137 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,160 |
| 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 instructional coordinators in Utah earn under $65,780 and half over. The published range runs $38,100 at the tenth percentile to $100,280 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 $52,107, worked from $65,780. 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 175 of 487.
- Two cautions on $54,848, the adjusted value of that $65,780 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 175 of 487 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for instructional coordinators in Utah, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,100 to $100,280; 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 $52,107, on $65,780 for work ranking 175 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 175 of 487 in the state.
- This $54,848 adjusted figure, worked from $65,780, 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 175 of 487 in the state. The occupation ranks 175 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 $70,340 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 $38,100 and the top tenth $100,280 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Utah is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $54,848 in national terms.
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 $52,107 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $70,340. 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 ($38,100) and the ninetieth ($100,280) 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 $54,848 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 $52,107 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.