Registered Nurses
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metropolitan area. Estimated employment 14,070.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of registered nurses in Salt Lake City earn more.
$85,890 in Salt Lake City buys what $85,200 buys across the country as a whole.
Salt Lake City's regional price parity is 100.9 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Utah
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Salt Lake City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. George | $86,380 | $88,800 | 97.3 | +4.2% |
| Logan | $86,120 | $89,800 | 95.9 | +5.4% |
| Salt Lake City This page | $85,890 | $85,200 | 100.9 | — |
| Ogden | $81,840 | $81,600 | 100.3 | −4.2% |
| Provo | $81,780 | $83,300 | 98.2 | −2.2% |
Price parity and difference against Salt Lake City are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 11.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 5.8% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 14,070 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 29-1141, Registered Nurses. Mapped to our taxonomy as registered-nurses.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.