Salt Lake City paramedic and EMT salary, 2026

Salt Lake City is a city in Salt Lake County. 9 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for Salt Lake City in fiscal year 2026. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people.

What does Salt Lake City pay its paramedics and EMTs?

Full-year paramedics and EMTs¹

4 of 9

our best estimate from Utah's file: how reliable are the Utah figures?

Average total pay, full-year paramedics and EMTs¹

Fewer than 5

9 paramedics and EMTs in all, 4 of them full-year: too few for an average.

Median total pay: Fewer than 5; the middle paramedic and EMT: half earned more, half less
Overtime: In total pay; Utah's file doesn't list it separately
Highest-paid title: Fewer than 5; fewer than 5 full-year people in any title
Average pay rank: Fewer than 5; too few full-year staff to rank

What does each paramedic and EMT title at Salt Lake City pay?

Each row is one title, from trainee to supervisor. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.¹ Utah's pay file has no official pay ranges, so none are shown.

Paramedics

Medical Response Paramedic8 people
Fewer than 5

EMTs

Community Health Emtfewer than 5 people
Fewer than 5

average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.

Firefighter-paramedic pay at Salt Lake City

Counted on their own, kept out of the paramedic and EMT figures on this page. Firefighter-paramedics are firefighters whose title names paramedic duties. Pay: average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included.¹

Staff	People	Average total pay
Firefighter-paramedics	85	$101,027

What do paramedics and EMTs earn around Salt Lake City?

Average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs across Salt Lake County and across Utah. Salt Lake City's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its paramedics and EMTs worked the full year.¹

All employers in Salt Lake County$89,788
All employers in Utah$96,368

Full-year paramedics and EMTs across Salt Lake County earned an average of $89,788, $6,580 less than the Utah average.

Questions about paramedic and EMT pay at Salt Lake City

Why is there no average paramedic and EMT salary for Salt Lake City?

9 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for Salt Lake City in fiscal year 2026, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.

How much does a firefighter-paramedic make at Salt Lake City?

Full-year firefighter-paramedics at Salt Lake City averaged $101,027 in total pay in fiscal year 2026, overtime included.

More salaries in Salt Lake County

Sources for the Salt Lake City figures

Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at Salt Lake City at any point in fiscal year 2026 counts toward the headcount. 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 the 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. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with very high pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people.

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.

How we read the data