City of Salt Lake City / Salt Lake City / Battalion Chief
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Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
8 employees hold this title in Salt Lake City. Median total compensation for the role is $163,879, above the department median of $78,667.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 8 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 First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers — about 360 people — is $104,310. Salt Lake City pays a median base salary of $104,808 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 60th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers 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 First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers — about 99,140 people — is $93,530. Salt Lake City’s median base salary is 12% above that national figure, about the 61st 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 20 of 21 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 $143,802, 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 7 jurisdictions. In City of Salt Lake City, the median of $143,802 ranks #6 of 7. See Battalion Chief across all of City of Salt Lake City →
Median total compensation for comparable Battalion Chief 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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Battalion Chief/Salt Lake City
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J. Milne is a Battalion Chief at Salt Lake City within Fire Department. 2018 total compensation came to $166,560.
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Les Goodwin works as a Battalion Chief for Salt Lake City within Fire Department. Les earned $166,272 in 2018.
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Ryan Mellor works as a Battalion Chief for Salt Lake City within Fire Department. Ryan earned $165,879 in 2018.
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At Salt Lake City, Richard Stratton serves as a Battalion Chief within Fire Department. Their 2018 pay totaled $164,865.
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Daniel Walker holds the role of Battalion Chief at Salt Lake City within Fire Department. In 2018, their total compensation was $162,893.
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Michael Fox is a Battalion Chief at Salt Lake City within Fire Department. 2018 total compensation came to $149,998.
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At Salt Lake City, Kelly Carter serves as a Battalion Chief within Fire Department. Their 2018 pay totaled $143,802.
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Christopher Hendrickson is a Battalion Chief at Salt Lake City within Fire Department. 2018 total compensation came to $21,521.