Utah · 2025 pay
How much do Iron County employees make?
$50,438typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$18,292 – $72,657what 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: Corrections - Deputy 1Sheriff - Deputy 1Corrections - Deputy 3
✓ 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.
$17,977
$50,501
$72,580
$178,707
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 $39,200 in 2016 to $50,438 in 2025 (+29%).
What changed since 2024
- −0.5%Typical pay went down from $50,683 to $50,438.
- +14330 people were paid in 2025, compared with 316 in 2024.
- +29%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $39,200 to $50,438, while the number of people paid went up from 261 to 330.
The agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Iron County
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $50,501 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $0 |
| Total for the year | $50,501 |
Average of the 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corrections - Deputy 1 | 22 | $55,327 | $38k – $66k | ▲ 19.5% |
| Sheriff - Deputy 1 | 14 | $42,736 | $36k – $68k | ▼ 37.9% |
| Corrections - Deputy 3 | 9 | $71,941 | $71k – $79k | ▼ 6.1% |
| Road - Maintenance Worker III / Equipment Operator | 9 | $61,946 | $51k – $69k | ▼ 0.1% |
| Road - Maintenance 1 | 9 | $27,828 | $12k – $32k | ▼ 35.2% |
| Landfill - Technician II | 8 | $35,544 | $21k – $47k | ▼ 29.0% |
| Sheriff - Corporal | 7 | $85,027 | $82k – $92k | new |
| Sheriff - Deputy 3 | 7 | $74,106 | $72k – $81k | ▲ 3.1% |
| Sheriff - (Part-Time) Reserve Officer | 7 | $498 | $0k – $2k | new |
| Assessor - Dmv Deputy | 6 | $20,460 | $16k – $40k | new |
| Coa - Driver | 6 | $10,148 | $8k – $13k | new |
| Corrections - Sergeant | 5 | $102,349 | $100k – $103k | new |
| Sheriff - Deputy 2 | 5 | $68,891 | $69k – $73k | new |
| Corrections - Deputy 2 | 5 | $64,829 | $65k – $69k | new |
| Sheriff - Bailiff | 5 | $23,501 | $11k – $26k | new |
| Weed - Technician | 5 | $4,480 | $4k – $7k | new |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k51
- $10k – $30k51
- $30k – $50k62
- $50k – $70k72
- $70k – $90k52
- $90k – $110k31
- $110k – $150k8
- $150k or more3
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Iron County in 2025
- 1Chad DotsonAttorney - Elected County Attorney$178,707▲ $11,131 vs 2024
- 2Brent A DunlapCourt - Judge 1/Full Time$156,707▲ $4,571 vs 2024
- 3Shane KlenkAttorney - Chief Deputy$154,611▲ $9,699 vs 2024
- 4Samuel E WoodallAttorney - Chief Deputy / Civil$147,663▲ $9,263 vs 2024
- 5Trajan W EvansAttorney - Pio / Deputy 5$138,492▲ $17,516 vs 2024
- 6Kenneth K CarpenterSheriff$130,719▲ $1,482 vs 2024
- 7Jared K WilsonIts - Director$125,206▲ $14,631 vs 2024
- 8Terry D PalmerBuilding - Administrator$122,970▲ $5,338 vs 2024
- 9Shalon Stapley ShaverCorrections - Lieutenant/Jail Commander$118,482▲ $3,523 vs 2024
- 10Joshua MeredithIts - IT Manager$112,153▲ $13,106 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Iron County employee make?
The typical employee was paid $50,438 in 2025: half of the 330 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $18,292 and $72,657.
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. 51 people (15.5%) 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 (99.9% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (0.1%).
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