Utah · 2025 pay
How much do Unified Fire Authority employees make?
$78,530typical pay, counting everyone paid in 2025
$36,671 – $113,087what 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: Capo89 CaptainPms2o89 Paramedic Specialist 2Firefighter EMT 1
✓ 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.
$35,880
$78,579
$112,675
$264,434
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 $55,171 in 2016 to $78,530 in 2025 (+42%).
What changed since 2024
- +11.7%Typical pay went up from $70,335 to $78,530.
- −6747 people were paid in 2025, compared with 753 in 2024.
- +42%Since 2016, typical pay has gone from $55,171 to $78,530, while the number of people paid went down from 750 to 747.
The agency updates it yearly, after each entity's fiscal year closes.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Unified Fire Authority
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $78,579 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $0 |
| Extra pay | $0 |
| Total for the year | $78,579 |
Average of the 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capo89 Captain | 87 | $127,917 | $117k – $141k | ▲ 3.6% |
| Pms2o89 Paramedic Specialist 2 | 79 | $109,525 | $100k – $120k | ▲ 7.3% |
| Firefighter EMT 1 | 75 | $44,997 | $20k – $59k | ▼ 13.6% |
| Spen2o89 Ff Special Eng 2 | 53 | $95,597 | $94k – $106k | ▲ 3.9% |
| Pms1o89 Paramedic Specialist 1 | 48 | $77,020 | $67k – $85k | ▲ 6.8% |
| Ptpmd89 (Part-Time) Paramedic | 48 | $10,236 | $5k – $26k | ▲ 10.8% |
| Ff2o89 Fire Fighter 2 | 34 | $61,624 | $42k – $67k | new |
| Wlgs4d97 Gs 4 Sawyer Lead | 22 | $4,779 | $4k – $31k | ▲ 9.4% |
| Ems2d89 (Part-Time) EMS Step 2 | 21 | $3,767 | $3k – $5k | ▲ 36.0% |
| Spen1o89 Ff Specialist Engineer 1 | 16 | $74,775 | $72k – $77k | ▲ 7.1% |
| Ems4d89 (Part-Time) EMS Step 4 | 16 | $14,752 | $3k – $22k | ▲ 175.3% |
| Engineer Paramedic 2 | 13 | $103,701 | $102k – $125k | new |
| Wlgs4d85 Gs 4 Sawyer Lead | 13 | $11,915 | $7k – $30k | ▼ 13.3% |
| Bco89 Battalion Chief | 12 | $163,316 | $145k – $181k | ▲ 6.0% |
| Ems3d89 (Part-Time) EMS Step 3 | 12 | $9,189 | $5k – $17k | ▲ 22.8% |
| Emtd89 Ffemt | 11 | $51,870 | $19k – $61k | new |
| Spec2o89 Firefighter 2 | 9 | $93,122 | $89k – $105k | ▲ 0.4% |
| Wlgs5d97 Gs 5 Squad Lead | 8 | $51,945 | $50k – $53k | ▲ 31.4% |
| O89 Ff Specialist Heavy Resc 2 | 5 | $106,046 | $94k – $113k | ▲ 15.5% |
No jobs match.
How many people earn what
- Under $10k87
- $10k – $30k85
- $30k – $50k52
- $50k – $70k103
- $70k – $90k90
- $90k – $110k127
- $110k – $150k157
- $150k or more46
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Highest paid at Unified Fire Authority in 2025
- 1Chet EllisEmadd40 Em Associate Director$264,434▲ $91,183 vs 2024
- 2Wade B. RussellAcd99 Assistant Chief$245,317new in 2025
- 3Dominic C. BurchettFcd99 Fire Chief$236,519new in 2025
- 4Louis R. PilgrimBco89 Battalion Chief$235,225new in 2025
- 5Brian RobertsChief Legal Officer$213,348▲ $6,282 vs 2024
- 6Nathanael M. BogenschutzBco89 Battalion Chief$212,981new in 2025
- 7Roger BeckmanCapo89 Captain$207,530▲ $56,872 vs 2024
- 8Dustin DernAcd99 Assistant Chief$206,038▲ $1,871 vs 2024
- 9Jeremy K. RobertsonCapo89 Captain$201,551new in 2025
- 10Anthony F. WiddisonDcwld97 Division Chief Wl$201,357new in 2025
Common questions
How much does a Unified Fire Authority employee make?
The typical employee was paid $78,530 in 2025: half of the 747 people paid earned more, half earned less. Most earned between $36,671 and $113,087.
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. 87 people (11.6%) 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