Utah social worker salaries by employer, 2025-26

766 people worked as social workers for 14 public employers in Utah in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026). Those who worked the full year earned an average of $64,543.

What is the average social worker salary in Utah?

Lowest-paying employer

$62,061

State of Utah
State government, fiscal year 2025

Average total pay, full-year Utah social workers¹

$64,543

overtime included

Highest-paying employer

$93,196

Weber Human Services
Interlocal agency in Weber County, fiscal year 2026

Highest- and lowest-paying among the 3 employers with at least 10 full-year social workers. The lists below include every employer with at least 5.

Social workers: 766; 338 of them worked the full year
Employers: 14; 5 with 5 or more social workers, in 4 counties
Median total pay: $61,179; the middle social worker: half earned more, half less
Overtime: In total pay; Utah's file doesn't list it separately

What stands out in Utah social worker pay

The State of Utah employs 88% of Utah's social workers.
677 of the 766 people counted here worked for the state in fiscal year 2025, nearly all as caseworkers. Full-year state caseworkers and social workers averaged $62,061.¹
Social workers at mental health agencies earn more.
Full-year social workers at public mental health agencies, and those whose title says mental health, averaged $91,870; all others $62,266.¹

Which Utah employers pay social workers the most?

By average total pay of full-year social workers, among employers with at least 5 of them.

Highest average total pay

Highest social worker salaries in Utah: the top employers by total pay and by county

Compare social worker pay at every Utah employer

What full-year social workers earned at each employer, overtime included. Click a column to sort it.

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Showing all 5 employers, highest average total pay first.


Weber Human ServicesWeber County	Weber	$93,196	fiscal year 2026	31	Mental health
Salt Lake CitySalt Lake County	Salt Lake	$88,885	fiscal year 2026	12	Mental health
Salt Lake CountySalt Lake County	Salt Lake	$64,150	fiscal year 2025	25	General
State of UtahStatewide County	Statewide	$62,061	fiscal year 2025	677	General
Uintah Basin Association of GovernmentsDuchesne County	Duchesne	$45,631	fiscal year 2026	8	General

Employers with fewer than 5 social workers aren't listed.

How reliable are the Utah social worker figures?

Pay here is total pay, overtime included.
Utah's file has one wage figure per person, so base pay and overtime can't be shown on their own.¹
Who worked the full year is our best estimate.
The file has no hours or start dates. We count someone as full-year when they worked for the same employer the year before, were paid at least 90% as much, and were paid at least a full year at the minimum wage.² Steady part-timers paid above that can still pass the test: 4 of the 338 full-year social workers were paid under $25,000.
Employers report different years.
Each employer shows the newest full year it has published: fiscal year 2026 for 3 employers and fiscal year 2025 for 2 employers. Where an employer's 2026 figures looked like part of a year, we show 2025. State figures combine both years.
There are no official pay ranges.
The file lists each person's title and pay, not the employer's pay scale, so these pages show what social workers were paid, not what a job can pay.
Titles were sorted by hand.
The file has no departments and cuts some long titles short, so we decided each title one by one. Caseworker titles count, as do titles with "social work" or "LCSW" in them; case managers and therapists don't, as in other states.

Which Utah jobs count as social workers here, and which don't?

The pay file lists only titles, so we decided each one by hand, on the same lines as the other states.

Counted

Social workers and licensed clinical social workers. At counties, cities, public mental health agencies, associations of governments and school districts.
The State of Utah's caseworkers. Caseworker I to III and Caseworker Specialist I and II, shown as one employer because the file doesn't name the state agency.

Left out

Assistant caseworkers, interns and temporary titles.
Case managers, therapists and clinicians. As in the other states, only social work and caseworker titles count.
The State of Utah's Social Service Workers. The title is used across state agencies, and the file doesn't show it's social work.
Universities, including the University of Utah's hospital, nonprofits and housing agencies. These pages cover the state and local governments.

How much do school social workers earn in Utah?

234 people worked as social workers for 8 Utah school districts in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026). Those who worked the full year earned an average of $86,959; the middle one earned $84,727.¹

School districts report to Transparent Utah like every other employer. They're shown in their own section, as on the other state pages. Charter schools aren't counted, and Alpine School District isn't listed: the payments under its social worker title are too small to be salaries.

Washington County School DistrictWashington County$93,893
Nebo School DistrictUtah County$92,352
Salt Lake City School DistrictSalt Lake County$91,725
Granite School DistrictSalt Lake County$88,845
Iron County School DistrictIron County$87,844
Canyons School DistrictSalt Lake County$82,980
Davis School DistrictDavis County$75,286

Average total pay of full-year school social workers, at every school employer with at least 5 of them. "No average" means fewer than 5 worked the full year.

Every Utah employer with a social worker pay page, by county

5 employers with at least 5 social workers. Employers without an average had fewer than 5 full-year social workers, or their records don't show who worked the full year.

Duchesne County
- Uintah Basin Association of Governments$45,631
Salt Lake County
- Salt Lake City$88,885
- Salt Lake County$64,150
Statewide
- State of Utah$62,061
Weber County
- Weber Human Services$93,196

Questions about social worker pay in Utah

How much do social workers make in Utah?

Full-year social workers and caseworkers in Utah earned an average of $64,543, overtime included, in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026). The middle one earned $61,179: half earned more, half less.

Which Utah employer pays social workers the most?

Among employers with at least 10 full-year social workers, Weber Human Services has the highest average total pay, $93,196, followed by Salt Lake County ($64,150) and State of Utah ($62,061).

What do State of Utah caseworkers earn?

Full-year caseworkers and social workers at the State of Utah averaged $62,061 in fiscal year 2025, overtime included. The file doesn't say which state agency each works for, so they're shown as one employer.

How much do school social workers make in Utah?

School social workers who worked the full year earned an average of $86,959 in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026), overtime included, at the 8 school districts with social worker titles in the file.

Who employs social workers in Utah?

Mostly the State of Utah, which employs 677 of the 766 social workers and caseworkers counted here. Counties, cities and public mental health agencies employ the rest. School districts' 234 social workers are counted separately.

Sources for the Utah social worker figures

Every person who held a social worker position at any point in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 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 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.

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