Cedar City water operator salary, 2025
Cedar City is a city in Iron County. 18 people worked as water operators for Cedar City in fiscal year 2025. Those who worked the full year earned an average of $65,876, overtime included.
What is the average water operator salary at Cedar City?
Full-year water operators1
17 of 18
our best estimate from Utah's file: how reliable are the Utah figures?
Based on the 17 of 18 water operators who worked the full year.
- Median total pay
- $64,132
- the middle water operator: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- In total pay
- Utah's file doesn't list it separately
- Highest-paid title
- Not reported
- fewer than 5 full-year people in any title
- Average pay rank
- 15th
- of 26 Utah employers
What does each water operator title at Cedar 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.
Wastewater collection operators
- Wastewater Collection Operator Ifewer than 5
- Wastewater Collections Operator IIfewer than 5
- Wastewater Senior Collection Operatorfewer than 5
Wastewater treatment operators
- Wastewater Plant Operator Ifewer than 5
- Wastewater Plant Operator IIfewer than 5
- Wastewater Senior Plant Operatorfewer than 5
Water system operators
- Water Operator Ifewer than 5
- Water Operator IIfewer than 5
- Water Operator IIIfewer than 5
- Water Operator IVfewer than 5
- Lead Water Operatorfewer than 5
average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
Does Cedar City pay water operators more than other employers in Iron County?
Average total pay of full-year water operators: Cedar City next to every employer in the county together, and the whole state.1
- Cedar City$65,876
- All employers in Iron County$67,755
- All employers in Utah$73,935
Full-year water operators at Cedar City earned $1,879 less than the Iron County average and $8,059 less than the Utah average.
Where does Cedar City rank among Utah employers?
Every employer with at least 5 full-year water operators, by average total pay.1
All 26 Utah employers
Cedar City ranks 15th of 26, below the middle employer.
Middle employer: $66,958
Each bar counts the employers whose average total pay falls in a $5,000 band. The dashed line marks the middle employer.
Questions about water operator pay at Cedar City
What is the average water operator salary at Cedar City?
Water operators at Cedar City who worked the full year earned an average of $65,876 in fiscal year 2025, overtime included. The middle water operator earned $64,132: half earned more, half less.
More salaries in Iron County
Sources for the Cedar City figures
Every person who held a water operator position at Cedar City at any point in fiscal year 2025 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.