City of Salt Lake City / Salt Lake City / Auditor III
Job-title file
Maintain financial records, prepare budgets and reports, and ensure compliance with fiscal rules.
2 employees hold this title in Salt Lake City. Median total compensation for the role is $80,201, above the department median of $78,667.
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 $60,108 for this role, 27% below that figure — about the 20th 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 28% below that national figure, about the 16th 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.
Median total compensation for this role at Salt Lake City is $80,201, 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 21 jurisdictions. See Auditor across all of City of Salt Lake City →
Median total compensation for comparable Auditor 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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Auditor III/Salt Lake City
Source-specific fields
Rachael Crary holds the role of Auditor III at Salt Lake City within Department of Airports. In 2018, their total compensation was $117,241.
Auditor III/Salt Lake City
Source-specific fields
Jennifer Schumann holds the role of Auditor III at Salt Lake City within Community and Neighborhoods. In 2016, their total compensation was $43,161.