Utah · 2025 pay
How much do Cedar City employees make?
$5,180typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$1,424 – $43,091what most people earned
Includes everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers. The source doesn't show who worked the full year.
Transparent Utah publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.
Common jobs: LifeguardLaborer I (Part-Time) - ParksVolunteer Firefighter
✓ Official data from Transparent UtahMatches the agency's latest releaseutah.gov ↗
How is pay spread across workers?
A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.
$1,445
$5,309
$42,262
$172,414
Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers
Typical workerright in the middle
Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers
Highest paidone person
Regular payOvertimeExtra pay
Is pay going up?
Yes. Typical pay went from $4,086 in 2016 to $5,180 in 2025 (+27%).
What changed since 2024
- −11.0%Typical pay went down from $5,822 to $5,180.
- +2659 people were paid in 2025, compared with 657 in 2024.
- +27%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $4,086 to $5,180, while the number of people paid went up from 559 to 659.
The agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Cedar City
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $5,309 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $0 |
| Total for the year | $5,309 |
Average of the 32 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
Matches the agency's latest release
Worth knowing about pay at Cedar City
What stands out in the payroll data, checked against the rest of our data before it is shown.
- +1.8%
People paid by Cedar City in both 2024 and 2025 saw their pay change by a typical +1.8%. Typical pay across everyone paid changed -11.0%, as people joined and left.
Usual among the 46 other cities in Utah in our data: +7.5%.
Compares the same people in both years, so new hires and leavers do not move it. Overtime and hours worked count too.
- +89%
Since 2016, total pay at Cedar City went up 89% while the number of people paid went up 18%.
Counts everyone paid during each year. Not adjusted for inflation.
Pay by job
Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.
| Job | People | Typical pay | Most earn |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeguard | 90 | $1,934 | $1k – $4k |
| Laborer I (Part-Time) - Parks | 28 | $4,627 | $2k – $8k |
| Volunteer Firefighter | 27 | $6,227 | $4k – $9k |
| Recreation Attendant I | 24 | $790 | $1k – $1k |
| Cart Range Attendant | 15 | $1,815 | $1k – $3k |
| Proshop Attendant | 14 | $1,488 | $1k – $3k |
| Concessions Attendant - Aquatic | 14 | $1,049 | $0k – $3k |
| Umpire | 13 | $1,523 | $1k – $2k |
| Library Clerk | 11 | $13,879 | $9k – $18k |
| Front Desk Attendant - Aquatic | 11 | $2,035 | $1k – $4k |
| Patrol Officer I | 10 | $50,942 | $42k – $59k |
| Equipment Operator | 10 | $48,740 | $44k – $56k |
| Maintenance Worker I - Golf | 10 | $2,617 | $2k – $5k |
| Driver - Cats | 9 | $14,497 | $4k – $17k |
| Facilities Maintenance | 9 | $2,117 | $1k – $5k |
| Patrol Officer III | 8 | $66,084 | $65k – $69k |
| Parks Maintenance Worker I | 8 | $16,675 | $3k – $41k |
| Stagehand -Heritage | 8 | $5,656 | $3k – $11k |
| Swim Instructor | 8 | $1,009 | $0k – $2k |
| Patrol Officer II | 7 | $63,356 | $60k – $71k |
| Planning Commission | 7 | $250 | $0k – $0k |
| Sergeant | 6 | $97,795 | $87k – $104k |
| Maintenance Worker I - Arena | 6 | $3,714 | $0k – $9k |
| Animal Shelter Assistant | 5 | $18,308 | $17k – $19k |
| Council Member | 5 | $14,943 | $15k – $15k |
| Facilities Maintenance - Admin/Pd/Various | 5 | $9,832 | $4k – $22k |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k391
- $10k – $30k83
- $30k – $50k40
- $50k – $70k68
- $70k – $90k40
- $90k – $110k22
- $110k – $150k14
- $150k or more1
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Cedar City in 2025
- 1Paul BittmennCity Manager$172,414
- 2Darin M. AdamsPolice Chief$147,388▲ $1,149 vs 2024
- 3Jason Wade NorrisFinance Director$144,975▲ $21,268 vs 2024
- 4Ryan Keith MarshallPublic Works Director$138,997▲ $341 vs 2024
- 5Randall Knight McuneCity Attorney$138,857▲ $9,955 vs 2024
- 6Kent Judd FugalCity Engineer$138,840
- 7Jonathan Alexander StathisSenior Engineer$135,646
- 8Jimmy Lester Jr RodenAssistant Police Chief$121,849
- 9Michael A PhillipsFire Chief$120,843▲ $739 vs 2024
- 10Matthew A. TophamSergeant Detective$117,434▲ $1,830 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Cedar City employee make?
The typical employee was paid $5,180 in 2025: half of the 659 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $1,424 and $43,091.
Why do so many people earn very little?
The list includes everyone who got a paycheck during the year: part-time, seasonal and short-term workers, and people who joined or left partway through. 391 people (59.3%) were paid under $10,000.
Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?
No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (100.0% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (0.0%).
Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?
From Utah Transparency (Office of the State Auditor / Division of Finance) (utah.gov). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 0 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals