- The middle half earn between $17.53 and $22.41 an hour.
- Utah ranks 25th of the 50 states with published figures for median pay in this trade.
- Utah pays more than 4 of its 6 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 1,050 pest control technicians on payrolls in Utah.
- At the state median wage, a pest control company needs to bill about $108.36 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Pest Control Technician pay in Utah, bottom to top
The BLS group is pest control workers: the technicians who inspect, treat and set traps in homes and businesses.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $16.00 | $33,280 | $16.67 |
| 25th percentile | $17.53 | $36,460 | $18.00 |
| Median | $21.51 | $44,740 | $21.75 |
| 75th percentile | $22.41 | $46,610 | $23.85 |
| 90th percentile | $22.90 | $47,640 | $29.75 |
| Average (mean) | $20.56 | $42,760 | $22.31 |
Pay is bunched up in Utah. The top tenth earn $22.90 an hour or more, about 1.4 times the $16.00 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 1.8 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
Both ends trail the national figures. The bottom tenth earn $0.67 an hour less than the bottom tenth nationally, and the top tenth $6.85 less than the national top tenth.
The average wage ($20.56) is a little under the median, so the low end of the range stretches further than the high end in Utah.
How Utah compares with other states
Over a full year the gap to the national median is small: $44,740 in Utah against $45,250 nationally, $510 less.
In the state ranking, Utah sits 25th, between Rhode Island ($21.65) and Louisiana ($21.43). North Carolina has exactly the same median, $21.51, so the two share that place. The range runs from $17.82 in New Mexico to $24.66 in Washington.
Against its neighboring states, Utah is in the middle: Colorado and Nevada pay more, and Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Wyoming pay less.
How many pest control technicians work in Utah
About 1,050 pest control technicians work on payrolls in Utah, 1.0% of the 102,620 nationwide, the 24th largest count among the states.
That is 0.6 of every 1,000 jobs in Utah, close to the trade's share of jobs nationally.
What a pest control company in Utah should charge
Say you run a pest control company in Utah and pay the state median of $21.51 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 | $21.51 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $48,163 |
| Break-even rate | ($48,163 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $92.11 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $92.11 ÷ 0.85 | $108.36 |
That is $108.36 per billable hour, 5 times the wage, and almost the same as the $108.78 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $22.41 in Utah, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $109.94.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $17.53, the rate only drops to $101.37.
At this wage, overhead is most of the price: $60 of every billed hour goes to it before anyone is paid. Spreading the same overhead over more billable hours, with a second person or less drive time, brings the rate down fastest.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Working as a pest control technician in Utah
- Licensing. What Utah asks for before you can work on your own: Pest control license in Utah.
- Running the business. Quotes, invoices, booking and your website in one place: how pest control companies run on Koira.
- Getting found. The free Koira report checks how your business shows up in search and on maps against shops near you.
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 37-2021, pest control 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: pest control technician salary by state.