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Hiring difficulty · Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

Psychiatric Technicians hiring difficulty in Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City, UT scores 3.7 out of 10 for Psychiatric Technicians, in the standard band of the public market difficulty score. This occupation is a smaller share of jobs in Salt Lake City than it is nationwide. The location quotient is 0.82 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Utah, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.5%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 31.4 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median is $41,570 a year, under the U.S. median of $45,130 and within 3 percent of the Utah median of $40,770 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 690 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Salt Lake City. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Salt Lake City at rank 48 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.

Public market difficulty score
3.7
Standard

Average of three ranked components, shown to one decimal. How this score is built

Key numbers

Metro median pay
$41,570
Utah $40,770 · U.S. $45,130. BLS OEWS, May 2025, annual wage.
Local 75th percentile
$47,250
Utah $45,710 · U.S. $50,160. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
Statewide hiring pace
31.4 days
All industries, Utah, December 2025. U.S. pace 37.8 days that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Levels: 64 thousand openings and 62 thousand hires.
Statewide openings rate
3.5%
All industries, Utah, December 2025. U.S. rate 4.0% that month. BLS JOLTS total nonfarm. Statewide figure, for every industry in the state.
Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types)
Not shown
No count for Salt Lake City. The CMS NPPES extract (retrieved September 28, 2026) was queried in Oklahoma and Texas cities only. Where a count is shown, it covers all provider types in the metro and is the same for every role.

JOLTS on this page is a statewide, all-industry figure. It is the same number for every role in Utah. It is a December 2025 print, matched to the U.S. total-nonfarm print for that month.

Annual pay

Metro employment 690 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Location quotient 0.82. Metro area: Salt Lake City-Murray, UT.

PercentileMetroUTU.S.
25th$40,180$38,540$38,430
Median$41,570$40,770$45,130
75th$47,250$45,710$50,160

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Unpublished cells stay blank here.

Score components

ComponentInputScoreReading
Local supply0.827.3Location quotient, BLS OEWS, May 2025. Lower quotient, higher component. Ranked among the 1,953 published pages.
Statewide openings rate3.5%2.0Total nonfarm, all industries, Utah, December 2025. Higher rate, higher component. Ranked among 51 states and DC.
Statewide hiring pace31.4 days1.8Openings ÷ hires × 365.25 ÷ 12, from 64 thousand openings and 62 thousand hires. Higher days, higher component.

Shown score 3.7 is the average, rounded half up to one decimal. Full method

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