Utah paramedic and EMT salaries by employer, 2025-26

720 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for 41 cities, counties, fire and ambulance districts and the state in Utah in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026). Those who worked the full year earned an average of $96,368, overtime included.

What is the average paramedic and EMT salary in Utah?

Lowest-paying employer

$91,659

Sandy
City in Salt Lake County, fiscal year 2026

Average total pay, full-year Utah paramedics and EMTs1

$96,368

overtime included

Highest-paying employer

$108,643

Ogden
City in Weber County, fiscal year 2026

Highest- and lowest-paying among the 5 employers with at least 10 full-year paramedics and EMTs. The lists below include every employer with at least 5.

Paramedics and EMTs
720
104 of them worked the full year
Employers
41
33 with 5 or more paramedics and EMTs, in 14 counties
Median total pay
$97,890
the middle paramedic and EMT: half earned more, half less
Overtime
In total pay
Utah's file doesn't list it separately

What stands out in Utah paramedic and EMT pay

Which Utah employers pay paramedics and EMTs the most?

By average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs, among employers with at least 5 of them.

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

Compare paramedic and EMT pay at every Utah employer

What full-year paramedics and EMTs earned at each employer, overtime included. Firefighter-paramedics aren't in these figures. Click a column to sort it.

Showing 1 to 25 of 33 employers, highest average total pay first.

OgdenWeber CountyWeber$108,643fiscal year 2026Paramedics33
Weber Fire DistrictWeber CountyWeber$100,593fiscal year 2025Paramedics22
OremUtah CountyUtah$100,143fiscal year 2026Paramedics12
DraperSalt Lake CountySalt Lake$99,251fiscal year 2026Paramedics21
SandySalt Lake CountySalt Lake$91,659fiscal year 2026Paramedics29
North View Fire DistrictWeber CountyWeber$88,509fiscal year 2026Paramedics12
Big WaterKane CountyKaneLeft outfiscal year 2026EMTs6
BluffdaleSalt Lake CountySalt LakeLeft outfiscal year 2026Paramedics28
Elk RidgeUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs8
MapletonUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2026EMTs43
PaysonUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2026EMTs56
Salt Lake CitySalt Lake CountySalt LakeFewer than 5fiscal year 2026Paramedics9
SantaquinUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2026EMTs21
SnowvilleBox Elder CountyBox ElderLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs9
South JordanSalt Lake CountySalt LakeFewer than 5fiscal year 2026Paramedics8
Spanish ForkUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2026Paramedics8
SpringvilleUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2026EMTs10
TremontonBox Elder CountyBox ElderLeft outfiscal year 2025Paramedics7
VineyardUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2026EMTs7
Woodland HillsUtah CountyUtahLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs5
Cache CountyCache CountyCacheLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs17
Carbon CountyCarbon CountyCarbonLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs25
Morgan CountyMorgan CountyMorganLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs20
Salt Lake CountySalt Lake CountySalt LakeLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs32
San Juan CountySan Juan CountySan JuanLeft outfiscal year 2025EMTs28

"Fewer than 5": fewer than 5 paramedics and EMTs worked the full year, too few for an average. Employers with fewer than 5 paramedics and EMTs aren't listed. "Left out": most people in the employer's paramedic and EMT titles were paid less than $32,000 in the year, which points to part-time work, so we can't tell who worked the full year (25 employers).

How reliable are the Utah paramedic and EMT figures?

Utah paramedic and EMT salaries, with firefighter-paramedics

Every employer on this page, the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026). Pay: full-year staff, overtime included.1

StaffPositionsFull yearAverage total pay
EMTs4431Left out
Paramedics277103$96,416
All paramedics and EMTs720104$96,368
Firefighter-paramedics888583$90,856

Firefighter-paramedics are counted on their own, outside every figure above them. EMTs: too few worked the full year at employers whose figures we can read.

Firefighter paramedic salary in Utah, by fire department

Firefighters whose title names paramedic duties (Firefighter/Paramedic, Fire Paramedic and the like), at every fire department with at least 10 who worked the full year. They're firefighters: Utah has no firefighter pages yet, so their pay is shown here only. Pay: average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included.1

Fire departmentFirefighter-paramedicsAverage total pay
Unified Fire Authority177$107,242
Murray42$105,935
West Jordan42$101,756
Salt Lake City85$101,027
West Valley City34$99,745
South Salt Lake21$98,574
Park City Fire Service District13$97,392
Layton24$91,974
South Jordan27$88,790
Provo40$87,962

The 10 departments with the highest average, of 24 with 5 or more full-year firefighter-paramedics.

Which Utah jobs count as paramedics and EMTs here, and which don't?

Transparent Utah lists every public employee by title. We decided each title by hand.

Counted as paramedics and EMTs

  • Single-role paramedics and EMTs. Paramedic, Senior Paramedic, Critical Care Paramedic, EMT, Advanced EMT and similar titles at cities, counties, fire and ambulance districts and the State of Utah.
  • Part-time and on-call titles. In every headcount; never in pay figures.

Shown separately or left out

  • Firefighter-paramedics. In the tables above, never in the paramedic and EMT figures. That includes the Unified Fire Authority's Paramedic Specialists, who are firefighters.
  • Firefighters with EMT duties, fire engineers and captains. Firefighter jobs.
  • Police SWAT medics, instructors, coordinators and volunteers.
  • Universities. Their EMT and paramedic titles aren't counted.

Every Utah employer with a paramedic and EMT pay page, by county

33 employers with at least 5 paramedics and EMTs. Open a county to see its employers. Employers without an average had fewer than 5 full-year paramedics and EMTs, or their records don't show who worked the full year.

Questions about paramedic and EMT pay in Utah

How much do paramedics make in Utah?

Full-year paramedics in single-role (ambulance) titles at Utah's cities, counties and fire districts averaged $96,416 in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026), overtime included. Firefighters whose title names paramedic duties averaged $90,856.

How much do EMTs make in Utah?

We can't say reliably. Many EMTs in Utah work part time or on call, and Utah's file has no hours, so their pay can't be told apart from a full year's. 443 people held an EMT title at the employers on this page.

Which Utah employer pays paramedics the most?

Among employers with at least 10 full-year paramedics and EMTs, Ogden has the highest average total pay, $108,643, followed by Weber Fire District ($100,593) and Orem ($100,143).

Sources for the Utah paramedic and EMT figures

Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at any point in the newest year each employer has published (fiscal years 2025 and 2026) 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.

  1. 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.
  2. Utah Code, Section 34-40-103, Minimum wage: Utah's minimum wage, the federal rate of $7.25 an hour.

How we read the data