Light Truck Drivers in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,988
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$8,872
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,934
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
$45,860
Kept after tax
$36,988
Worth in national money
$38,934
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Utah is one of the better-paying states for light truck drivers. The middle earner takes $45,860, which ranks 17 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 2.23% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Utah, this sits in the middle: 353 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 $45,860 you keep $36,988 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,934 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $47,920, since top earners drag the number up.
- Utah ranks 17 of 51 states publishing a median for light truck drivers, at $45,860 — about 2.23% 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.
- Light truck drivers ranks 353 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 $36,988 after the full tax stack, from $45,860. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,934 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,920 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Light Truck Drivers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,970 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $64,670 |
| This salary | $45,860 |
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 | $36,988 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,029 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,229 |
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 | $43,320 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,487 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,860 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,970 and the ninetieth is $64,670 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $36,988 take-home in Utah comes from $45,860. 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 353 of 487.
- Two cautions on $38,934, the adjusted value of that $45,860 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 353 of 487 locally.
- The Utah median of $45,860 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,970 to $64,670. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $36,988, from $45,860, 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 353 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 51 for it.
- This $38,934 adjusted figure, worked from $45,860, 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 353 of 487 in the state. The occupation ranks 353 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 $47,920 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 $33,970 and the top tenth $64,670, 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 $38,934 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, $36,988 remains.
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 $47,920. 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 ($33,970 to $64,670) 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 $38,934 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 $36,988 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.