Utah correctional officer salaries by employer, 2025
1,835 people worked as correctional officers for 18 state and county employers in Utah in fiscal year 2025. Those who worked the full year earned an average of $83,699, overtime included.
What is the average correctional officer salary in Utah?
Highest- and lowest-paying among the 15 employers with at least 10 full-year officers. The lists below include every employer with at least 5.
- Correctional officers
- 1,835
- 1,136 of them worked the full year
- Employers
- 18
- 18 with 5 or more officers, in 17 counties
- Median total pay
- $80,871
- the middle correctional officer: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- In total pay
- Utah's file doesn't list it separately
What stands out in Utah correctional officer pay
The State of Utah employs 64% of Utah's correctional officers.
1,171 of the 1,835 officer positions are at the state, which counts as one employer: the file doesn't say which agency or prison each person works for. Its full-year officers averaged $82,011, overtime included.1
Depending on the employer, average total pay runs from $67,863 to $104,227.
That's the range across the 15 employers with at least 10 full-year officers, overtime included.1
Correctional sergeants average $109,948, $26,249 more than officers.
Full-year correctional sergeants averaged $109,948, lieutenants averaged $119,605 and captains averaged $131,963. Those ranks are kept out of the officer figures on this page.1
Which Utah employers pay correctional officers the most?
By average total pay of full-year officers, among employers with at least 5 of them.
Highest average total pay
- Summit CountyCounty jails
14 full-year officers$104,227 - Utah CountyCounty jails
124 full-year officers$103,841 - Wasatch CountyCounty jails
13 full-year officers$97,986 - Grand CountyCounty jails
6 full-year officers$94,381 - Kane CountyCounty jails
18 full-year officers$90,786 - Weber CountyCounty jails
107 full-year officers$82,782 - State of UtahState government, state prisons
638 full-year officers$82,011 - Washington CountyCounty jails
49 full-year officers$81,110 - Box Elder CountyCounty jails
18 full-year officers$78,922 - Tooele CountyCounty jails
15 full-year officers$76,657
Utah average, $83,699
Highest correctional officer salaries in Utah: the top employers by total pay and by county
Compare correctional officer pay at every Utah employer
What full-year officers earned at each employer, overtime included. Sergeants and higher ranks aren't in these figures. Click a column to sort it.
Showing all 18 employers, highest average total pay first.
| Summit CountySummit County | Summit | $104,227 | 19 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah CountyUtah County | Utah | $103,841 | 145 |
| Wasatch CountyWasatch County | Wasatch | $97,986 | 20 |
| Grand CountyGrand County | Grand | $94,381 | 8 |
| Kane CountyKane County | Kane | $90,786 | 19 |
| Weber CountyWeber County | Weber | $82,782 | 143 |
| State of UtahStatewide | Statewide | $82,011 | 1,171 |
| Washington CountyWashington County | Washington | $81,110 | 64 |
| Box Elder CountyBox Elder County | Box Elder | $78,922 | 28 |
| Tooele CountyTooele County | Tooele | $76,657 | 34 |
| Garfield CountyGarfield County | Garfield | $76,153 | 18 |
| Millard CountyMillard County | Millard | $74,512 | 18 |
| San Juan CountySan Juan County | San Juan | $73,043 | 15 |
| Cache CountyCache County | Cache | $71,218 | 45 |
| Iron CountyIron County | Iron | $70,232 | 40 |
| Sanpete CountySanpete County | Sanpete | $67,921 | 16 |
| Carbon CountyCarbon County | Carbon | $67,863 | 20 |
| Duchesne CountyDuchesne County | Duchesne | Fewer than 5 | 12 |
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"Fewer than 5": fewer than 5 officers worked the full year, too few for an average. Employers with fewer than 5 officers aren't listed.
How reliable are the Utah correctional officer figures?
Pay here is total pay, overtime included.
Utah's file has one wage figure per person, so base pay and overtime can't be shown on their own.1
Who worked the full year is our best estimate.
The file has no hours or start dates. We count someone as full-year when they worked for the same employer the year before, were paid at least 90% as much, and were paid at least a full year at the minimum wage.2 Steady part-timers paid above that can still pass the test: 5 of the 1,136 full-year officers were paid under $25,000.
Employers report different years.
Each employer shows the newest full year it has published: fiscal year 2025 for 18 employers. Where an employer's 2026 figures looked like part of a year, we show 2025. State figures combine both years.
There are no official pay ranges.
The file lists each person's title and pay, not the employer's pay scale, so these pages show what officers were paid, not what a job can pay.
Titles were sorted by hand.
The file has no departments and cuts some long titles short, so we decided each title one by one. County jails name the job differently: we count Corrections Officer and Corrections Deputy titles, and deputy sheriffs whose title names the jail assignment.
Utah correctional officer pay by rank: officer, sergeant, lieutenant and captain
The State of Utah and every Utah county jail, fiscal year 2025. Each rank leads to its own page. Pay: full-year staff, overtime included.1
| Rank | Positions | Average total pay |
|---|---|---|
| Officers | 1,835 | $83,699 |
| Sergeants | 294 | $109,948 |
| Lieutenants | 100 | $119,605 |
| Captains | 52 | $131,963 |
Which Utah jobs count as correctional officers here, and which don't?
Transparent Utah lists every public employee by title. We decided each custody title by hand.
Counted as correctional officers
- The State of Utah's correctional officers. Correctional Officer (also written "Corrl Officer, POST"), counted as one employer for the whole state.
- County jail officers. Corrections Officer and Corrections Deputy, at every level, as each county names the job, and jail deputies: deputy sheriffs whose title names the jail assignment (Deputy Sheriff - Corrections in Utah, Weber and Cache counties). Utah law's definition of a correctional officer covers sworn and certified officers employed by a county, not only the state's Department of Corrections.3
Shown separately or left out
- Sergeants, lieutenants and captains. In the pay by rank table above, not in the officer figures.
- Deputy sheriffs whose title doesn't name the jail. Salt Lake County's jail staff, for example, aren't in titles that say corrections, so Salt Lake County has no page here.
- Titles that combine patrol and jail work. Duchesne County's Deputy Sheriff/Corrections Officer.
- Davis County. Most of its wages in the file are zero, so its officers aren't counted.
- Adult probation and parole agents, case managers, control point operators, jail nurses and clerks.
- Trainees, part-time and reserve officers.
Every Utah employer with a correctional officer pay page, by county
18 employers with at least 5 officers. Open a county to see its employers. Employers without an average had fewer than 5 full-year officers, or their records don't show who worked the full year.
Box Elder County
1 employer, $78,922- Box Elder County$78,922
Cache County
1 employer, $71,218- Cache County$71,218
Carbon County
1 employer, $67,863- Carbon County$67,863
Duchesne County
1 employer- Duchesne CountyFewer than 5
Garfield County
1 employer, $76,153- Garfield County$76,153
Grand County
1 employer, $94,381- Grand County$94,381
Iron County
1 employer, $70,232- Iron County$70,232
Kane County
1 employer, $90,786- Kane County$90,786
Millard County
1 employer, $74,512- Millard County$74,512
San Juan County
1 employer, $73,043- San Juan County$73,043
Sanpete County
1 employer, $67,921- Sanpete County$67,921
Statewide
1 employer- State of Utah$82,011
Summit County
1 employer, $104,227- Summit County$104,227
Tooele County
1 employer, $76,657- Tooele County$76,657
Utah County
1 employer, $103,841- Utah County$103,841
Wasatch County
1 employer, $97,986- Wasatch County$97,986
Washington County
1 employer, $81,110- Washington County$81,110
Weber County
1 employer, $82,782- Weber County$82,782
Questions about correctional officer pay in Utah
How much do correctional officers make in Utah?
Full-year correctional officers at the State of Utah and Utah's county jails earned an average of $83,699, overtime included, in fiscal year 2025. The middle officer earned $80,871: half earned more, half less.
How much does a Utah state correctional officer make?
Full-year correctional officers at the State of Utah averaged $82,011 in fiscal year 2025, overtime included. 1,171 people held a state correctional officer title during the year.
Which Utah employer pays correctional officers the most?
Among employers with at least 10 full-year officers, Summit County has the highest average total pay, $104,227, followed by Utah County ($103,841) and Wasatch County ($97,986).
How much do correctional sergeants and lieutenants make in Utah?
Full-year correctional sergeants averaged $109,948, lieutenants averaged $119,605 and captains averaged $131,963 in fiscal year 2025, against $83,699 for officers.
Sources for the Utah correctional officer figures
Every person who held a correctional officer position at any point in fiscal year 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked for the same employer the year before, were paid at least 90% as much as in that year, earned at least 90% of that pay in the job's titles, and were paid at least $15,080, a full year at Utah's minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.2 Utah's file has no hours or start dates, so this is the closest sign of a full year. Total pay is the wages each employer reported, before tax. Utah's file has one wage figure per person with overtime inside it, so pay here is total pay and overtime can't be shown on its own. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- Transparent Utah, Office of the Utah State Auditor: title, wages and benefits of every employee of every Utah city, town, county and local district, as each reports them for its fiscal year.
- Utah Code, Section 34-40-103, Minimum wage: Utah's minimum wage, the federal rate of $7.25 an hour.
- Utah Code, Section 53-13-104, Correctional officers: a sworn and certified officer employed by the Department of Corrections, any political subdivision of the state, or a private entity that contracts with them to incarcerate inmates.