150+ Design & UX Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Local direct wage data for core design occupations is limited, so the clearest observed local pay signal comes from current postings: Salt Lake City-Murray Design, Creative & UX salary ranges center on about $109k to $155k, with a broader band of about $75k to $210k. Individual local or local-anchored roles show a similar senior-product pattern, including AAPC at $100,000–$140,000 and GovCIO at $140,000, while a YC-linked Salt Lake product design role posted $90,000–$200,000. Adjacent local tech pay anchors are also strong: web developers averaged $95,630 and software developers $131,400 in the metro as of May 2025.

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Advertised pay

Across the 62 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $74,707 at the 25th percentile, $89,000 at the median and $130,684 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 25, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Salt Lake City-Murray sits in a growing local economy: total nonfarm employment reached 862,300 jobs in July 2026, up 26,700 from a year earlier, and professional and business services employment was up 6.0668% year over year in June. But the design market itself is tighter than the metro headline: Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Utah Design, Creative & UX employment essentially flat year over year in August 2026, with active postings down 5.8%. Local demand is real rather than broad, with more than 40 postings across more than 40 companies in the last 90 days, and the mix skews toward mid and senior hiring instead of entry-level openings. So this is a competitive market: good enough to pursue if you match the product/UX profile, but not forgiving for generalists or beginners.

Best positioned: Senior or strong mid-career product and UX designers who can show Figma, user research, prototyping, design systems, and AI-assisted workflow examples have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming a healthy Salt Lake economy means lots of easy creative openings; only about 10% of sampled roles were entry level and about 15% were remote.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 168 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Utah: 7 open roles
2. Consor: 6 open roles
3. Harris Group: 6 open roles
4. Trenchant: 5 open roles
5. Ezra Lee: 4 open roles
6. Lynk Engineers: 4 open roles
7. Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.: 4 open roles
8. Consor: 3 open roles
9. Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.: 3 open roles
10. Quanta Infrastructure Solutions Group: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Salt Lake City: 108
• Draper: 17
• Sandy: 9
• South Jordan: 5
• Riverton: 5
• Alpine: 4
• West Valley City: 4
• Midvale: 2

Work arrangement

on-site 116 (69%), hybrid 47 (28%), remote 4 (2%)

Where the demand is

Most real opportunity sits in product and UX work attached to the metro's tech engine, not in pure standalone studio roles. In the local posting sample, technology accounts for about 30% of demand and software development about 25%, while Salt Lake City's professional and business services employment was up 6.0668% year over year in June 2026. Salt Lake also has a deep engineering base: BLS shows 19,040 software developers in the metro and a computer and mathematical location quotient of 2.12, which helps explain why UX and product design jobs often sit beside engineering rather than in isolated creative departments. A second cluster sits in healthcare and regulated service design. Healthcare represents about 10% of local postings, AAPC is advertising a Salt Lake-linked Product Designer role emphasizing AI-assisted development and Figma, and GovCIO lists a Human Centered Design & UX Analyst role at $140,000 that can be applied to Salt Lake City. Consumer product and device companies are another meaningful lane. Cricut advertised a remote Visual Design Lead, UX role tied to its South Jordan base, and the most consistently active employers in the local sample include Cricut, ZAGG Inc., Flex Ltd, Ashby, and Eatpdq. By contrast, traditional graphic, illustration, and motion work appears thinner and more fragmented in the evidence, so generalist creative candidates should expect fewer openings and more portfolio scrutiny.

• B2B SaaS and product teams (high): This is the biggest local lane, with technology at about 30% and software development at about 25% of the local sample, plus a large engineering base in the metro.
• Healthcare and regulated UX (moderate): Healthcare is about 10% of the local sample, and current roles from AAPC and GovCIO point to product design and human-centered design needs in health and public-sector workflows.
• Consumer hardware and device-adjacent UX (moderate): Cricut's local presence and the activity from Cricut, ZAGG Inc., and Flex Ltd suggest ongoing opportunity for device, companion-app, and visual UX work.
• Pure visual, brand, and graphic creative (limited): The evidence base is thinner here, and the local sample leans toward product and UX skills over standalone visual-creative hiring.

Where to focus: Prioritize product design and UX roles inside software, healthcare, and device companies, and show research, systems, and AI workflow depth rather than only visual aesthetics.

Roles worth searching next

• Front-end web developer: Interaction design, responsive thinking, and prototyping translate well to front-end build work, and local pay anchors are solid: web developers averaged $95,630 and software developers $131,400 in the metro as of May 2025.
• Product manager: Strategy, user research, and stakeholder communication overlap heavily with product management, especially in software-heavy employers.
• Digital project manager: Teams that value systems thinking and cross-functional delivery also reward digital project management skills, which show up in 2026 compensation guidance for creative work.
• Customer experience or UX analyst: Some employers hire UX-fluent analysts rather than pure designers; GovCIO's Human Centered Design & UX Analyst role is a current example.

What postings ask for

• Figma (table_stakes | immediate): Figma appears in about 60% of local postings, and a Salt Lake-linked AAPC product design role explicitly asked for strong Figma skills. Who: Everyone in product, UX, UI, and design-systems work.
• User research (differentiator | immediate): User research shows up in about 35% of local postings, and the more durable UX roles are the ones tied to research and strategy rather than execution-only production. Who: Entry-level candidates trying to stand out and mid-career designers moving upmarket.
• Design systems and prototyping (differentiator | immediate): Design systems and prototyping each appear in about 35% of local postings, which is a clue that employers want scalable product work, not just screen polish. Who: Mid-career product and UX designers, plus visual designers trying to move into product work.
• AI literacy and AI-assisted design workflow (premium | immediate): Local and national signals align here: AAPC mentions AI-assisted development, more than one-third of entry-level jobs now ask for some AI competency, and AI mentions in Design and Make listings rose 46% in 2026. Who: All candidates, especially entry-level designers and switchers.
• Adobe Creative Suite (table_stakes | near-term): Photoshop and Illustrator each appear in about 25% of local postings, and Utah training guidance still flags Adobe Creative Suite as core for creative-tech hiring. Who: Visual, brand, motion, and marketing-adjacent designers who still want to compete for broader creative roles.
• Human-centered design and human factors (premium | near-term): GovCIO's Salt Lake-applicable Human Centered Design & UX Analyst role shows that research-heavy, human-factors-fluent designers can access higher-paid work. Who: Designers targeting healthcare, government, or regulated enterprise products.

Questions about this market

What do Design, Creative & UX roles pay in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Local direct wage data for core design occupations is limited, so the clearest observed local pay signal comes from current postings: Salt Lake City-Murray Design, Creative & UX salary ranges center on about $109k to $155k, with a broader band of about $75k to $210k. Individual local or local-anchored roles show a similar senior-product pattern, including AAPC at $100,000–$140,000 and GovCIO at $140,000, while a YC-linked Salt Lake product design role posted $90,000–$200,000. Adjacent local tech pay anchors are also strong: web developers averaged $95,630 and software developers $131,400 in the metro as of May 2025. This is a market where product and UX compensation can be attractive if you are close to software revenue or regulated enterprise work. Utah's mean offered salary on new Design, Creative & UX openings was about $50,309 in August 2026 based on a small sample of n=202 from Revelio Public Labor Statistics, versus about $75,574 nationally on n=39,125, which suggests Utah posting pay is uneven and title mix matters a lot.

Where is demand for Design, Creative & UX roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT concentrated?

Most real opportunity sits in product and UX work attached to the metro's tech engine, not in pure standalone studio roles. In the local posting sample, technology accounts for about 30% of demand and software development about 25%, while Salt Lake City's professional and business services employment was up 6.0668% year over year in June 2026. Salt Lake also has a deep engineering base: BLS shows 19,040 software developers in the metro and a computer and mathematical location quotient of 2.12, which helps explain why UX and product design jobs often sit beside engineering rather than in isolated creative departments. A second cluster sits in healthcare and regulated service design. Healthcare represents about 10% of local postings, AAPC is advertising a Salt Lake-linked Product Designer role emphasizing AI-assisted development and Figma, and GovCIO lists a Human Centered Design & UX Analyst role at $140,000 that can be applied to Salt Lake City. Consumer product and device companies are another meaningful lane. Cricut advertised a remote Visual Design Lead, UX role tied to its South Jordan base, and the most consistently active employers in the local sample include Cricut, ZAGG Inc., Flex Ltd, Ashby, and Eatpdq. By contrast, traditional graphic, illustration, and motion work appears thinner and more fragmented in the evidence, so generalist creative candidates should expect fewer openings and more portfolio scrutiny.

Which employers are hiring the most Design, Creative & UX talent in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Recent postings show the most activity from Cricut (5 postings), ZAGG Inc. (5 postings), Flex Ltd (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Design, Creative & UX roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 15% are remote and 35% hybrid, with 50% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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