Animal Control Workers · SOC 33-9011

Animal Control Workers Salary in the Salt Lake City Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro area

Figures describe the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Salt Lake City city limits.

Median annual wage$49,680
Median hourly wage$23.88

Animal Control Workers in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro area earned a median of $49,680 per year ($23.88 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $39,360 at the 10th percentile to $64,860 at the 90th. BLS estimates 100 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Animal Control Workers in the Salt Lake City metro area earn more than $49,680 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $43,850 and $58,140.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$39,360$43,850$49,680$58,140$64,860
Hourly$18.92$21.08$23.88$27.95$31.18

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Salt Lake City metro areathis metro area
    $49,680 median for Salt Lake City metro area; middle half earns $43,850 to $58,140
  • Utahstate (UT)
    $47,210 median for Utah; middle half earns $39,360 to $54,250
  • $45,660 median for United States; middle half earns $37,750 to $57,060

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +5% vs Utah overall and +9% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$30,340$46,477$62,613$78,750McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $30,340Jackson, MS — $32,830Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $35,190Tucson, AZ — $35,200Corpus Christi, TX — $35,240El Paso, TX — $36,140Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $37,180Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $37,340Birmingham, AL — $37,740Lake Charles, LA — $38,020Killeen-Temple, TX — $38,410Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $39,020Tulsa, OK — $39,330Knoxville, TN — $39,720Columbia, SC — $41,740Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $42,840Oklahoma City, OK — $43,080Wichita, KS — $43,190Albuquerque, NM — $43,250Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $43,460Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $43,470Jacksonville, FL — $43,620Kansas City, MO-KS — $44,310Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $44,760Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $45,030Columbus, OH — $45,220San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $45,310Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $45,460St. Louis, MO-IL — $45,540Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $45,690Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $45,860Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $46,310Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $46,430Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $46,480Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $46,680Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $47,440Raleigh-Cary, NC — $47,700Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $47,730Syracuse, NY — $48,150Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $48,340Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $48,830Richmond, VA — $49,010Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $49,150Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,370Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $49,680Cleveland, OH — $49,710Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $49,890Portland-South Portland, ME — $50,110Pittsburgh, PA — $52,000Rochester, NY — $54,370Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $54,770Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $54,810Worcester, MA — $55,410San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $55,570New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $55,790Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $56,640Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $57,510Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $58,430Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $59,870Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $60,560New Haven, CT — $61,860Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $61,950Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $62,810Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $63,140Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $64,050Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $67,860Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $70,410San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $74,260San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $77,540Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $78,750

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Salt Lake City metro area has the 26th-highest published median for this occupation among the 70 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

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About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.