300+ Nursing & Healthcare Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Observed pay is solid: BLS puts the metro mean for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations at about $52.26 an hour in May 2025. Proxy pay is higher and more mixed: the local posting sample centers on about $113k to $150k annually, hourly postings center on about $34 to $48 / hour, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows a Utah mean offered salary on new openings of about $96,199 in August 2026 (n=968).

Full August 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 164 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $89,346 at the 25th percentile, $94,806 at the median and $131,815 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

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

Salt Lake City-Murray is a favorable market for healthcare practitioners right now: metro unemployment was 3.5% in July 2026, education and health services employment reached 105.2 thousand in June 2026 and was up 4.6766% year over year, and healthcare practitioners account for an above-average 6.3% of local employment. Pay is attractive, with a BLS mean hourly wage of about $52.26 in May 2025 versus $48.67 nationally, while local posted salary ranges center on about $113k to $150k. The catch is that this is not an easy generalist market: most work is on-site, employers screen heavily for licenses and clinical workflow skills, and the clearest current demand is in hospital-based and specialty care settings.

Best positioned: Licensed clinicians with recent acute-care or specialty experience, strong documentation and assessment skills, and willingness to work fully on-site have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest misconception is that high pay means easy entry; this market rewards licensed fit and unit fit more than broad healthcare interest.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 319 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Utah: 66 open roles
2. Intermountain Health Company: 25 open roles
3. Rocky Mountain Care: 14 open roles
4. Intermountain Healthcare Inc.: 11 open roles
5. St. Mark's Hospital: 11 open roles
6. UTN: 11 open roles
7. MyStethi, LLC: 9 open roles
8. CommonSpirit Health: 6 open roles
9. Serenity Healthcare: 6 open roles
10. Serenity Health Care: 6 open roles

Where the openings are

• Salt Lake City: 184
• Murray: 31
• Sandy: 13
• Holladay: 13
• West Jordan: 11
• Draper: 9
• Layton: 9
• Riverton: 7

Work arrangement

on-site 292 (93%), hybrid 16 (5%), remote 5 (2%)

Where the demand is

Most real opportunity is concentrated in core care-delivery settings rather than peripheral healthcare employers. In the local posting sample, about 80% of Healthcare Practitioners postings sit in healthcare, another about 10% in hospitals and health care, and hiring is fragmented across more than 175 companies rather than dominated by one employer. The clearest live demand signals are hospital-based and specialty care roles. Recent local openings included a hospitalist role at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, a Maternal Fetal Medicine physician role in Murray, and a local-contract OR RN opening in Salt Lake City tied to Saint Mark's Hospital via HealthTrust Workforce Solutions Regional. Combined with metro education and health services employment growth of 4.6766% year over year, that suggests the market is strongest where inpatient coverage, perioperative care, and specialty women's-health demand are hardest to backfill. That is good news if your experience is specific and current. It is less favorable if you are applying broadly across unrelated settings and hoping the category-level shortage will carry you.

• Hospital systems and major care-delivery employers (high): This is the largest and most reliable source of openings, supported by the heavy concentration of postings in healthcare and hospital settings and by current physician and RN demand signals.
• Specialty physician pipelines (high): Women’s health and inpatient physician coverage stand out in current local signals, especially around Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.
• Contract and perioperative staffing (moderate): The OR RN contract opening suggests some employers are still using staffing partners to solve immediate coverage problems, especially in acute care.

Where to focus: Prioritize hospital-based employers and specialty groups where your license matches an obvious coverage gap, especially acute-care, perioperative, hospitalist, and women's-health pipelines.

Roles worth searching next

• Medical assistant: It is a practical bridge for candidates who want patient-facing experience before or instead of a fully licensed practitioner path.
• Patient care technician: It keeps you close to bedside workflows and can make later transition into licensed clinical work more credible.
• Clinical documentation specialist: Local demand for clinical documentation is strong, so this can fit clinicians who want to stay near care delivery without the same bedside intensity.
• Care coordinator: It uses patient education and care-transition skills that already show up in local practitioner demand.
• Healthcare administrator: This is a reasonable pivot for clinically literate candidates who want to move toward operations, scheduling, compliance, or practice management, and adjacent non-clinical healthcare pay is still projected to rise modestly.

What postings ask for

• RN license (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most frequently named credential in the local sample and remains a direct screening gate for many bedside roles. Who: Registered nurses, new grads with licensure in hand, and clinicians transferring from another market.
• CPR certification (table_stakes | immediate): It shows up repeatedly in local postings and can be a basic eligibility filter for patient-facing work. Who: Entry-level clinicians, outpatient hires, and anyone re-entering direct care.
• Patient assessment (table_stakes | immediate): It is one of the most requested hard skills in local postings, which means employers are looking for people who can contribute clinically from day one. Who: New grads, bedside clinicians, and anyone moving into a more patient-facing setting.
• Clinical documentation (differentiator | immediate): It is tied for the most requested skill locally and helps both ATS matching and real-world compliance-heavy care workflows. Who: All applicant types, especially mid-career clinicians who need to show measurable workflow strength.
• Medication administration (differentiator | immediate): It appears often enough in the local sample to signal practical bedside readiness, not just theoretical training. Who: Nurses and clinicians targeting inpatient, procedural, or ambulatory medication-heavy settings.
• Patient education (differentiator | near-term): Employers are looking for clinicians who can support outcomes, discharge quality, and adherence, not only task completion. Who: Ambulatory clinicians, care-transition candidates, and bedside staff moving into broader scope roles.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Practitioners roles pay in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Observed pay is solid: BLS puts the metro mean for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations at about $52.26 an hour in May 2025. Proxy pay is higher and more mixed: the local posting sample centers on about $113k to $150k annually, hourly postings center on about $34 to $48 / hour, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows a Utah mean offered salary on new openings of about $96,199 in August 2026 (n=968). That places practitioner pay above the metro's average weekly wage of about $1,650, or roughly $85,000 annualized for full-time work, and far above healthcare support pay of $19.62 an hour.

Where is demand for Healthcare Practitioners roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT concentrated?

Most real opportunity is concentrated in core care-delivery settings rather than peripheral healthcare employers. In the local posting sample, about 80% of Healthcare Practitioners postings sit in healthcare, another about 10% in hospitals and health care, and hiring is fragmented across more than 175 companies rather than dominated by one employer. The clearest live demand signals are hospital-based and specialty care roles. Recent local openings included a hospitalist role at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, a Maternal Fetal Medicine physician role in Murray, and a local-contract OR RN opening in Salt Lake City tied to Saint Mark's Hospital via HealthTrust Workforce Solutions Regional. Combined with metro education and health services employment growth of 4.6766% year over year, that suggests the market is strongest where inpatient coverage, perioperative care, and specialty women's-health demand are hardest to backfill. That is good news if your experience is specific and current. It is less favorable if you are applying broadly across unrelated settings and hoping the category-level shortage will carry you.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Practitioners talent in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Recent postings show the most activity from Utah (75 postings), CommonSpirit Health (30 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Healthcare Practitioners roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 90% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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