Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,397
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$12,813
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,996
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
$62,210
Kept after tax
$49,397
Worth in national money
$51,996
State rank
12
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Utah pays this job a middle wage of $62,210, ranking 12 of 47 states and sitting about 6.07% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Utah, this sits in the middle: 202 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 $62,210 you keep $49,397 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $51,996 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $64,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- Utah's median for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers is $62,210, about 6.07% above the national figure and 12 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers ranks 202 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 $49,397 after the full tax stack, from $62,210. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $51,996 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $64,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $86,430 |
| This salary | $62,210 |
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 | $49,397 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,166 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,686 |
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 | $58,765 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,039 |
| 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 title examiners, abstractors, and searchers in Utah earn under $62,210 and half over. The published range runs $40,830 at the tenth percentile to $86,430 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Utah the take-home figure of $49,397, from $62,210, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 202 of 487 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $51,996 uses one figure for the whole of Utah. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 487 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 202.
- Figures are distribution medians for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers in Utah, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,830 to $86,430; 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.
- Take-home for Utah is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $49,397 from $62,210. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 202 of 487 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $51,996, worked from $62,210, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Utah address, on work sitting at 202 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 $64,770, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $40,830 and the top tenth $86,430 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $51,996.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Utah then takes its own share, leaving $49,397.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $64,770. 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 ($40,830) and the ninetieth ($86,430) 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 $51,996 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 $49,397 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.