Utah / Department of Corrections / Pharmacy Technician
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
8 employees hold this title in Department of Corrections. Median total compensation for the role is $54,823, below the department median of $87,386.
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 Utah, the median wage for Pharmacy Technicians — about 5,030 people — is $48,140. Department of Corrections pays a median base salary of $33,191 for this role, 31% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Pharmacy Technicians across every employer in Utah, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Corrections’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Pharmacy Technicians — about 471,680 people — is $45,750. Department of Corrections’s median base salary is 27% 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 Utah range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 6 of 8 people in this role paid at least $25,000in 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 Department of Corrections is $54,823, 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 departments
Pharmacy Technician is held in 3 Utah departments. In Department of Corrections, the median of $54,823 ranks #2 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Pharmacy Technician role in other Utahdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 12 jurisdictions. In Utah, the median of $40,896 ranks #11 of 12. See Pharmacy Technician across all of Utah →
Median total compensation for comparable Pharmacy Technicianroles 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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Pharmacy Technician/Department of Corrections
Source-specific fields
Laura Thompson works as a Pharmacy Technician for Department of Corrections within Comp & Excess Pool. Laura earned $58,972 in 2019.