- The middle half earn between $30.44 and $45.27 an hour.
- Utah ranks 35th of the 50 states and DC for median pay in this trade.
- Utah pays more than 2 of its 6 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 14,270 construction supervisors on payrolls in Utah.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $135.83 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Utah, bottom to top
BLS calls this group first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers: the foremen and crew leads who run the work on site.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $26.38 | $54,870 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $30.44 | $63,310 | $30.48 |
| Median | $37.15 | $77,280 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $45.27 | $94,150 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $55.00 | $114,400 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $38.94 | $81,000 | $41.56 |
Pay is bunched up in Utah. The top tenth earn $55.00 an hour or more, about 2.1 times the $26.38 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 2.4 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
The floor is higher than nationally ($26.38 against $25.62) but the ceiling is lower ($55.00 against $61.66), which squeezes pay toward the middle.
The average, $38.94, is close to the median, so pay sits fairly evenly around the middle.
How Utah compares with other states
Over a full year the gap to the national median is small: $77,280 in Utah against $79,920 nationally, $2,640 less.
In the state ranking, Utah sits 35th, between Maine ($37.16) and Montana ($36.98). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Against its neighboring states, Utah is in the middle: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming pay more, and Idaho and New Mexico pay less.
How many construction supervisors work in Utah
About 14,270 construction supervisors work on payrolls in Utah, 1.8% of the 812,210 nationwide, the 21st largest count among the states.
The trade is a bigger part of the local job market than it is nationally: 8.2 of every 1,000 jobs in Utah, 1.6 times the national share.
What a contracting business in Utah should charge
Say you run a contracting business in Utah and pay the state median of $37.15 an hour. Here is the labor rate calculator's math on its starting numbers: 40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit.
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $37.15 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $83,183 |
| Break-even rate | ($83,183 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $115.46 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $115.46 ÷ 0.85 | $135.83 |
That is $135.83 per billable hour, 3.7 times the wage, and $2.23 less than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $45.27 in Utah, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $150.09.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $30.44, the rate only drops to $124.05.
Overhead, at $60 of every billed hour, and the unbilled hours move this rate more than a raise does. A dollar more in wages adds about $1.76 to the rate.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 47-1011, first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: construction supervisor salary by state.