Utah · 2025 pay
How much do Helper City employees make?
$1,325typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$489 – $3,977what 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: Life GuardClerkFire Fighter
✓ 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.
$470
$1,316
$4,404
$85,757
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?
No. Typical pay went from $1,771 in 2016 to $1,325 in 2025 (−25%).
What changed since 2024
- −8.3%Typical pay went down from $1,445 to $1,325.
- +0111 people were paid in 2025, compared with 111 in 2024.
- −25%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $1,771 to $1,325, while the number of people paid went up from 98 to 111.
The agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Helper City
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $1,316 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $0 |
| Total for the year | $1,316 |
Average of the 6 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
Matches the agency's latest release
Pay by job
Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025.
| Job | People | Typical pay | Most earn | Since 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Guard | 24 | $600 | $0k – $1k | ▼ 32.7% |
| Clerk | 19 | $499 | $0k – $1k | ▲ 29.5% |
| Fire Fighter | 13 | $3,000 | $0k – $3k | ▲ 33.3% |
| Assistant | 9 | $2,112 | $1k – $7k | ▼ 46.1% |
| Council Member | 6 | $2,100 | $1k – $2k | ▲ 75.0% |
How many people earn what
- Under $10k89
- $10k – $30k8
- $30k – $50k9
- $50k – $70k3
- $70k – $90k2
- $90k – $110k0
- $110k – $150k0
- $150k or more0
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Helper City in 2025
- 1Sean DraperChief$85,757▲ $19,732 vs 2024
- 2Lara OlsonOfficer VI$74,004▲ $15,811 vs 2024
- 3Garrett Lee NewmanOfficer VI$59,856▲ $11,121 vs 2024
- 4Christopher ShawOfficer VI$54,745▼ $758 vs 2024
- 5Doyle J. RomeroDirector$54,489▲ $5,863 vs 2024
- 6Brittany HansenDirector$45,495▲ $3,823 vs 2024
- 7Billie HeilesenCity Recorder$43,103▲ $6,147 vs 2024
- 8Travis J WilsonEmployee Position$38,637▲ $396 vs 2024
- 9Bradley MortensenLaborer$37,694▲ $1,972 vs 2024
- 10Deborah JensenLaborer$36,997▲ $1,386 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Helper City employee make?
The typical employee was paid $1,325 in 2025: half of the 111 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $489 and $3,977.
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. 89 people (80.2%) 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