Utah librarian salaries by employer, 2025-26

• University librarians average $82,663, public library librarians $62,077.

  The University of Utah's full-year librarians averaged $91,891, the most of any Utah employer. Public libraries employ 345 of the 490 librarians counted here.¹

• Salt Lake County employs more librarians than any other Utah employer.

  138 people held a librarian title at the county's library system; the 94 who worked the full year averaged $60,929.¹

• Depending on the employer, average total pay runs from $51,148 to $91,891.

  That's the range across the 6 employers with at least 10 full-year librarians.¹

• 929 people work as library assistants and clerks, more than librarians, but there's no pay figure for them.

  Many library assistants work part time, and Utah's file has no hours, so we can't tell who worked the full year. They're counted here, outside every librarian figure, without pay.¹

Highest librarian salaries in Utah: the top employers by total pay and by county

• 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: 4 of the 331 full-year librarians were paid under $25,000.

• Employers report different years.

  Each employer shows the newest full year it has published: fiscal year 2026 for 14 employers and fiscal year 2025 for 6 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 librarians 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. Outside the universities, assistant and associate librarians were paid like library assistants (Salt Lake City Public Library, Lehi, Orem), so they count with library assistants. Part-time, temporary and substitute titles never count as a full year.

Library assistants: many work part time, and the file has no hours, so their pay is left out.

• Cache County

  3 employers, $66,029

  • Logan$55,713
  • SmithfieldLeft out
  • Utah State University$69,380

• Salt Lake County

  5 employers, $70,706

  • Murray$77,672
  • Salt Lake City Public Library$65,363
  • Salt Lake Community CollegeFewer than 5
  • Salt Lake County$60,929
  • University of Utah$91,891

• Sanpete County

  1 employer

  • MantiLeft out

• Statewide

  1 employer

  • State of Utah$64,452

• Utah County

  6 employers, $65,356

  • American Fork$58,235
  • LehiFewer than 5
  • Orem$72,908
  • ProvoLeft out
  • Spanish Fork$74,679
  • Utah Valley University$66,380

• Wasatch County

  1 employer

  • Wasatch CountyFewer than 5

• Washington County

  2 employers, $51,148

  • Utah Tech UniversityLeft out
  • Washington County$51,148

• Weber County

  1 employer, $70,398

  • Weber County$70,398