Material Moving Workers, All Other · SOC 53-7199

Material Moving Workers, All Other 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$38,780
Median hourly wage$18.65

Material Moving Workers, All Other in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro area earned a median of $38,780 per year ($18.65 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $30,220 at the 10th percentile to $51,940 at the 90th. BLS estimates 60 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Material Moving Workers, All Other in the Salt Lake City metro area earn more than $38,780 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $38,060 and $51,330.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$30,220$38,060$38,780$51,330$51,940
Hourly$14.53$18.30$18.65$24.68$24.97

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
    $38,780 median for Salt Lake City metro area; middle half earns $38,060 to $51,330
  • Utahstate (UT)
    $36,330 median for Utah; middle half earns $29,800 to $41,270
  • $41,800 median for United States; middle half earns $36,600 to $50,220

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

The median here is +7% vs Utah overall and −7% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

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Where this metro sits nationally

$31,810$48,440$65,070$81,700Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $31,810McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $32,430Tyler, TX — $33,360Columbus, OH — $33,950Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $34,630Knoxville, TN — $35,080Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $35,330Green Bay, WI — $35,340Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $35,390Madison, WI — $35,480Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $35,520Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $35,780Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $35,960Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $36,090Chico, CA — $36,400San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $36,550San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $36,620Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $36,650Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $36,810Fresno, CA — $36,950Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $37,530Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $37,530Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $37,580Visalia, CA — $37,910Modesto, CA — $38,050Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $38,050Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $38,070Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $38,250Salisbury, MD — $38,280Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $38,660Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $38,780Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $39,170Stockton-Lodi, CA — $39,400Redding, CA — $39,520Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $39,870Pittsburgh, PA — $39,900Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $39,930Salinas, CA — $40,720Jacksonville, FL — $41,080Kansas City, MO-KS — $41,610Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $41,760St. Louis, MO-IL — $41,910San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $42,040Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $43,010Vallejo, CA — $43,780Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $43,890Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $44,100Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $44,270San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $44,410San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $44,510Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $45,970Richmond, VA — $46,020New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $46,360Anchorage, AK — $46,560Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $48,230Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $48,400Merced, CA — $49,670Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $50,040Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $50,160Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $50,170Reno, NV — $50,170Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $50,770Eugene-Springfield, OR — $51,440Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $52,170Rochester, MN — $53,640Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $55,640Greeley, CO — $59,880New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $61,540Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $61,730Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $62,730Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $65,110Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $81,700

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 42nd-highest published median for this occupation among the 72 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.