Highest correctional officer salaries in Utah, by employer, 2025
Summit County pays Utah's highest average total pay for correctional officers: $104,227 for those who worked the full year in fiscal year 2025, against a state average of $83,699.
Where do correctional officers earn the most in Utah?
The 17 employers with the highest average total pay of full-year correctional officers, overtime included. Sergeants and higher ranks aren't in these figures.
Highest average total pay
- Summit CountyCounty jails
14 full-year officers$104,227 - Utah CountyCounty jails
124 full-year officers$103,841 - Wasatch CountyCounty jails
13 full-year officers$97,986 - Grand CountyCounty jails
6 full-year officers$94,381 - Kane CountyCounty jails
18 full-year officers$90,786 - Weber CountyCounty jails
107 full-year officers$82,782 - State of UtahState government, state prisons
638 full-year officers$82,011 - Washington CountyCounty jails
49 full-year officers$81,110 - Box Elder CountyCounty jails
18 full-year officers$78,922 - Tooele CountyCounty jails
15 full-year officers$76,657 - Garfield CountyCounty jails
17 full-year officers$76,153 - Millard CountyCounty jails
11 full-year officers$74,512 - San Juan CountyCounty jails
8 full-year officers$73,043 - Cache CountyCounty jails
40 full-year officers$71,218 - Iron CountyCounty jails
26 full-year officers$70,232 - Sanpete CountyCounty jails
12 full-year officers$67,921 - Carbon CountyCounty jails
18 full-year officers$67,863
Which Utah counties pay correctional officers the most?
Average total pay of full-year officers across every employer in the county, for the 16 counties with at least 5 of them. The dashed line marks the Utah average of $83,699.
The highest-paying employer for correctional officers in each Utah county
By average total pay of full-year officers, among the county's employers with at least 5 of them.
- Box Elder CountyBox Elder County$78,922only employer with an average
- Cache CountyCache County$71,218only employer with an average
- Carbon CountyCarbon County$67,863only employer with an average
- Garfield CountyGarfield County$76,153only employer with an average
- Grand CountyGrand County$94,381only employer with an average
- Iron CountyIron County$70,232only employer with an average
- Kane CountyKane County$90,786only employer with an average
- Millard CountyMillard County$74,512only employer with an average
- San Juan CountySan Juan County$73,043only employer with an average
- Sanpete CountySanpete County$67,921only employer with an average
- Summit CountySummit County$104,227only employer with an average
- Tooele CountyTooele County$76,657only employer with an average
- Utah CountyUtah County$103,841only employer with an average
- Wasatch CountyWasatch County$97,986only employer with an average
- Washington CountyWashington County$81,110only employer with an average
- Weber CountyWeber County$82,782only employer with an average
Questions about the highest correctional officer salaries in Utah
Which Utah employer pays correctional officers the most?
Summit County, where full-year correctional officers earned an average of $104,227 in fiscal year 2025, overtime included. Utah County ($103,841) and Wasatch County ($97,986) follow.
Which Utah county pays correctional officers the most?
Summit County, where full-year correctional officers in its county and city jails earned an average of $104,227, followed by Utah County ($103,841) and Wasatch County ($97,986).
Sources for the Utah correctional officer rankings
Pay figures use only people who worked for the same employer the year before, were paid at least 90% as much as in that year, earned at least 90% of that pay in the job's titles, and were paid at least $15,080, a full year at Utah's minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.2 Utah's file has no hours or start dates, so this is the closest sign of a full year. Total pay is the wages each employer reported, before tax. Utah's file has one wage figure per person with overtime inside it, so pay here is total pay and overtime can't be shown on its own. Every figure covers at least 5 people. Rankings and medians are our own arithmetic on these figures. Each employer's figures are from the newest year it has published (fiscal year 2025).
- Transparent Utah, Office of the Utah State Auditor: title, wages and benefits of every employee of every Utah city, town, county and local district, as each reports them for its fiscal year.
- Utah Code, Section 34-40-103, Minimum wage: Utah's minimum wage, the federal rate of $7.25 an hour.