Residential Advisors in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,963
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$7,277
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,645
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
$39,240
Kept after tax
$31,963
Worth in national money
$33,645
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Utah pays residential advisors around $39,240 at the midpoint, 27 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 487 occupations Utah publishes, residential advisors lands at 415. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $39,240 you keep $31,963 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $33,645 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $41,480, since top earners drag the number up.
- For residential advisors the Utah median is $39,240, ranking 27 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.
- Within Utah, this work ranks 415 of 487 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Utah is $31,963 after the full tax stack, from $39,240. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $33,645 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $41,480 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Residential Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $32,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $55,320 |
| This salary | $39,240 |
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 | $31,963 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,709 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,045 |
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 | $37,067 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,263 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $39,240 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $32,200 and the ninetieth is $55,320 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $31,963 take-home in Utah comes from $39,240. 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 415 of 487.
- One number stands for prices across all of Utah, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $33,645, the adjusted value of that $39,240 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 415 of 487 in the state.
- The Utah median of $39,240 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $32,200 to $55,320. 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 $31,963, from $39,240, 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 415 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Utah, so $33,645 — the adjusted value of that $39,240 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 415 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 $41,480, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $32,200 and the top tenth $55,320, so most people doing this work in Utah sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $33,645 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 $31,963 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 $41,480. 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 ($32,200 to $55,320) 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 $33,645 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 $31,963 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.