Insurance Sales Agents in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,654
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$12,576
20.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,213
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
$61,230
Kept after tax
$48,654
Worth in national money
$51,213
State rank
30
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Utah pays insurance sales agents around $61,230 at the midpoint, 30 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Utah, this sits in the middle: 217 of 487 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Utah does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $61,230 you keep $48,654, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $51,213 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $76,740, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For insurance sales agents the Utah median is $61,230, ranking 30 of 51 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.
- Insurance sales agents ranks 217 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.
- After federal, FICA and Utah income tax, retained pay for insurance sales agents on $61,230 is $48,654. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $51,213 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 $76,740 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Insurance Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $132,090 |
| This salary | $61,230 |
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 | $48,654 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,378 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,659 |
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 | $57,839 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,006 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Utah earn less than $61,230. The published range is $35,270 up to $132,090, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $48,654 take-home in Utah comes from $61,230. 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 217 of 487.
- Two cautions on $51,213, the adjusted value of that $61,230 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 217 of 487 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for insurance sales agents in Utah the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,270 to $132,090. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $48,654, from $61,230, 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 217 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 51 for it.
- This $51,213 adjusted figure, worked from $61,230, 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 217 of 487 in the state. The occupation ranks 217 of 487 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $76,740, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $35,270, the highest tenth $132,090, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $51,213.
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 $48,654 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 $76,740. 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 ($35,270) and the ninetieth ($132,090) 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 $51,213 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 $48,654 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.