Average Airline Pilots, Copilots, And Flight Engineers Salary in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

Airline Pilots, Copilots, And Flight Engineers in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT earn a median annual salary of $174,940, which is -24.6% compared to the national median. There are 1,740 workers employed locally in this occupation.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2025 estimates for Salt Lake City-Murray, UT (metro area).

$174,940

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT median annual wage

-24.6%

Difference vs national median

National median is $232,140

1,740

Local employment

2.1 jobs per 1,000 workers

3.16

Location quotient

Above 1.00 means the occupation is more concentrated here than nationally

Pay distribution

Local wage range

10th: $140,090
25th: $140,620
Median: $174,940
75th: $197,630
90th: $433,330

All values are percentiles of annual wages.

This local range is the useful part of the page. The median tells you the center of the market in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT, while the percentile band shows how compressed or wide the local pay distribution actually is.

Regional price parity

Cost-of-living context

All-items regional price parity

100.9%

Exact metro RPP match

Median wage adjusted to the national price level

$173,435

Goods: 96.4%
Services: 79.0%
Rents: 123.3%

Comparison links

Comparable metros for this occupation

Metro	Median annual wage	Compare	Employment
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$618,090	Compare	8,700
Boise City, ID	$507,640	Compare	N/A
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$428,570	Compare	N/A
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$374,680	Compare	2,900
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$364,730	Compare	6,710
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$350,950	Compare	3,330

The point of this table is not random nearby places. It is to show the other labor markets where this same occupation looks stronger or weaker on the same OEWS release.

Area context

Top occupations in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

Occupation	Median annual wage	LQ
Radiologists	$449,940	2.10
Neurologists	$376,490	0.83
General Internal Medicine Physicians	$344,220	0.31
Psychiatrists	$299,670	0.96
Family Medicine Physicians	$296,510	0.18
Cardiovascular Technologists And Technicians	$224,280	2.42
Chief Executives	$190,400	1.55
Petroleum Engineers	$180,230	1.16

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT has salary data for 602 occupations. The highest-paid occupation in this area is Radiologists.

Historical series

Trend for Airline Pilots, Copilots, And Flight Engineers in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

Historical trend data is not yet available for this occupation in this area.

Interpretation

Outlook and page notes

Nationally, Airline Pilots, Copilots, And Flight Engineers are projected to change by +3.9% from 2024 to 2034, with 11,700 annual openings.

Use this page to answer three separate questions: what the occupation pays here, how large the local market is, and whether this market is unusually concentrated for the occupation.

For metro pages in particular, read long-term trend rows as directional until the area comparability layer is fully wired. OEWS area definitions can change over time, and that matters more at the metro level than at the state level.