City of Salt Lake City / Salt Lake City / Accountant IV
Job-title file
Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.
10 employees hold this title in Salt Lake City. Median total compensation for the role is $49,516, below the department median of $78,667.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 10 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT area, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 8,660 people — is $82,100. Salt Lake City pays a median base salary of $55,585 for this role, 32% below that figure — about the 15th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Accountants and Auditors across every employer in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Salt Lake City’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 1,449,500 people — is $83,680. Salt Lake City’s median base salary is 34% below that national figure, below the 10th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 37 of 47 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Salt Lake City is $71,644, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 38 jurisdictions. In City of Salt Lake City, the median of $71,644 ranks #17 of 38. See Accountant across all of City of Salt Lake City →
Median total compensation for comparable Accountant roles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Burnette Willis holds the role of Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Public Utilities Department. In 2018, their total compensation was $106,069.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Angie Brohamer holds the role of Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Public Utilities Department. In 2018, their total compensation was $96,561.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Shannon Ashby holds the role of Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Department of Finance. In 2017, their total compensation was $73,222.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Lorin Rollins holds the role of Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Airport. In 2012, their total compensation was $62,080.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Shellie Dietrich is a Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Police Department. 2016 total compensation came to $49,908.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Yang Kim is a Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Public Utilities Department. 2018 total compensation came to $49,125.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Cory Chivers holds the role of Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Airport. In 2012, their total compensation was $46,251.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Heather Coyle works as a Accountant IV for Salt Lake City within Department of Finance. Heather earned $28,958 in 2018.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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Suzanne Swanson is a Accountant IV at Salt Lake City within Department of Finance. 2017 total compensation came to $12,067.
Accountant IV/Salt Lake City
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At Salt Lake City, Julie Janke serves as a Accountant IV within Department of Finance. Their 2018 pay totaled $5,638.