Utah / Department of Human Services / Program Administrator I
Job-title file
Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.
89 employees hold this title in Department of Human Services. Median total compensation for the role is $93,196, above the department median of $40,522.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 89 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 Instructional Coordinators — about 3,680 people — is $65,780. Department of Human Services pays a median base salary of $56,889 for this role, 14% below that figure — about the 37th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Instructional Coordinators across every employer in Utah, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Human Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Instructional Coordinators — about 227,760 people — is $77,440. Department of Human Services’s median base salary is 27% below that national figure, about the 20th 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 162 of 196 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 Human Services is $93,320, 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
Program Administrator I is held in 2 Utah departments. In Department of Human Services, the median of $93,196 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Program Administrator I role in other Utahdepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In Utah, the median of $84,872 ranks #3 of 5. See Program Administrator across all of Utah →
Median total compensation for comparable Program Administratorroles 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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Program Administrator I/Department of Human Services
Source-specific fields
Judith Walker is a Program Administrator I at Department of Human Services within Comp & Excess Pool. 2018 total compensation came to $70,892.