Utah / Department of Workforce Services / Office Specialist I
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
8 employees hold this title in Department of Workforce Services. Median total compensation for the role is $21,384, below the department median of $69,979.
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 Office Clerks, General — about 36,470 people — is $44,060. Department of Workforce Services pays a median base salary of $33,734 for this role, 23% below that figure — about the 21st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Office Clerks, General across every employer in Utah, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Workforce Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Office Clerks, General — about 2,464,940 people — is $45,010. Department of Workforce Services’s median base salary is 25% below that national figure, about the 19th 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 78 of 121 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 Workforce Services is $52,900, 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
Office Specialist I is held in 15 Utah departments. In Department of Workforce Services, the median of $21,384 ranks #3 of 15.
Median total compensation for the Office Specialist 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 $31,605 ranks #4 of 5. See Office Specialist across all of Utah →
Median total compensation for comparable Office Specialistroles 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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Office Specialist I/Department of Workforce Services
Source-specific fields
At Department of Workforce Services, Michael Dut serves as a Office Specialist I within Dws Operations & Policy. Their 2019 pay totaled $26,639.