100+ Healthcare Support Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Recent local posted pay centers on about $18 to $23 per hour, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $16 to $26 per hour in the local posting sample. Separate metro and state proxies land in a similar zone: University of Utah Health medical assistants show about $19.40 to $24.78 per hour, Utah medical assistants show a $45,360 median annual wage, and a local estimated benchmark puts healthcare support work around $42,450 annually. Healthcare administration can pay higher when you move into structured support roles; a VA program support assistant posting listed $45,409 to $59,031 per year.

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Advertised pay

Across the 42 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $41,699 at the 25th percentile, $47,174 at the median and $50,606 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 10, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is still a workable market, but not an easy one. Salt Lake City's unemployment rate was 3.6% in June 2026, and local education and health services employment reached 105.2 thousand, up 4.6766% year over year, which is faster than the metro's overall 2.7291% nonfarm job growth. The catch is that Utah-wide healthcare support and healthcare administration employment was up 0.6% year over year in July, while active postings for the same family were down 8.9%, so employers are still hiring but opening fewer seats than last year. Local postings still showed more than 200 openings across more than 50 companies over the last 90 days, yet the mix skewed about 90% entry-level and about 95% on-site, which makes this a good market for prepared applicants rather than casual ones.

Best positioned: A candidate with a certificate, on-site availability, EMR comfort, and hands-on outpatient skills such as vitals, intake, phlebotomy, EKG basics, and documentation has the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming sector growth means easy hiring; most local roles still sit in modest hourly bands and some smaller-practice openings are built around narrow coverage schedules rather than broad full-time expansion.

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Who is hiring here

Counted across all 123 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Utah: 45 open roles
2. Intermountain Healthcare Inc.: 11 open roles
3. University of Utah Health: 6 open roles
4. Intermountain Health Company: 5 open roles
5. Granger Medical Clinic: 4 open roles
6. HCA Healthcare: 4 open roles
7. Fresenius Medical Care AG: 3 open roles
8. HCA Healthcare, Inc.: 3 open roles
9. St. Mark's Hospital: 3 open roles
10. Walmart Inc.: 3 open roles

Where the openings are

• Salt Lake City: 61
• Layton: 10
• Murray: 7
• West Valley City: 6
• South Jordan: 5
• Sandy: 5
• Draper: 4
• Park City: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 116 (97%), hybrid 2 (2%), remote 1 (1%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in core healthcare settings, not in remote back-office work. In the local posting mix, healthcare accounts for about 75% of category postings, with hospitals and health care about 10% and health care services and hospitals about 5%. Named employer signals point to Intermountain Health, University of Utah Health, Holy Cross Medical Group, Molina Healthcare, House Call Doctors, and Harmony Home Health and Hospice as active parts of the market. The category is split into two useful sub-markets. One is patient-facing outpatient support built around patient care, phlebotomy, injections, vital signs, IV access, and EKGs. The other is healthcare operations support such as program support, executive support, billing and insurance, and patient-access work, where documentation and EMR fluency matter more than bedside tasks. Because the employer sample is fragmented rather than dominated by one system, you should not wait for one brand-name employer to call back. A wider pipeline across large systems, multi-site groups, home health, hospice, and smaller practices is the safer strategy here.

• Outpatient and ambulatory support (high): Best fit for candidates with vitals, intake, phlebotomy, EKG, injections, and patient-care basics; this is the clearest local skill cluster.
• Health-system and government administration (moderate): Program support, executive support, and structured healthcare operations roles can pay better than frontline support but ask for stronger workflow ownership and documentation discipline.
• Small practices, home health, and hospice (moderate): These employers do hire, but some openings are narrower in schedule or scope, including short-shift coverage and focused billing support roles.

Where to focus: Focus first on certified, on-site roles at major systems and multi-site clinics, then add billing, patient-access, and program-support openings to widen your funnel.

Roles worth searching next

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN): If you already like patient-facing work, moving into licensed nursing is a logical next step, and Utah's broader nursing workforce is projected to grow 25% with nearly 2,170 annual openings.
• Registered Nurse: For support workers who want a long-term earnings step-up, nursing sits in a much stronger adjacent demand lane in Utah's care workforce.
• EMT or Paramedic: Some local postings in this family already mention a state approved EMT course, advanced EMT certification, or paramedic certification, which shows overlap in patient-care skill foundations.

What postings ask for

• Phlebotomy (table_stakes | immediate): It appears in about 40% of local postings and is also named in local training pathways, so it is one of the clearest screen-in skills for support roles. Who: Entry-level medical assistant and patient-care applicants.
• Vital signs and patient intake (table_stakes | immediate): Local curriculum and postings both emphasize vitals monitoring, intake, and basic patient care workflow. Who: Anyone targeting clinic, urgent care, or ambulatory support roles.
• EKG basics (differentiator | immediate): EKG shows up in about 25% of local postings and is named in training expectations, which helps you clear outpatient-clinic screening. Who: Candidates pursuing medical assistant or patient care tech roles.
• EMR and clinical documentation (differentiator | immediate): Documentation is part of core training, and EMR proficiency is described as the primary local tool constraint for ambulatory placements. Who: Both patient-facing and healthcare-operations applicants.
• Professional certificate or medical assisting education program (table_stakes | near-term): About 45% of postings that state an education requirement ask for a professional certificate, and medical assisting education programs appear among the common credentials. Who: Entry-level applicants and career switchers without direct healthcare experience.
• Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) (premium | near-term): CMA appears in local requirements, and a national medical-assistant pay guide says certified medical assistants earn about 10% more than uncertified peers. Who: Medical assistants who want stronger callback rates and better pay leverage.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration roles pay in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Recent local posted pay centers on about $18 to $23 per hour, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $16 to $26 per hour in the local posting sample. Separate metro and state proxies land in a similar zone: University of Utah Health medical assistants show about $19.40 to $24.78 per hour, Utah medical assistants show a $45,360 median annual wage, and a local estimated benchmark puts healthcare support work around $42,450 annually. Healthcare administration can pay higher when you move into structured support roles; a VA program support assistant posting listed $45,409 to $59,031 per year. This is moderate pay with access points for certificate-level candidates, but it is not high-margin pay in this metro. Salt Lake City's cost-of-living index is 105.0, so the common pay band is workable rather than generous unless you add specialization, overtime, or a stronger administrative scope.

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

Real opportunity is concentrated in core healthcare settings, not in remote back-office work. In the local posting mix, healthcare accounts for about 75% of category postings, with hospitals and health care about 10% and health care services and hospitals about 5%. Named employer signals point to Intermountain Health, University of Utah Health, Holy Cross Medical Group, Molina Healthcare, House Call Doctors, and Harmony Home Health and Hospice as active parts of the market. The category is split into two useful sub-markets. One is patient-facing outpatient support built around patient care, phlebotomy, injections, vital signs, IV access, and EKGs. The other is healthcare operations support such as program support, executive support, billing and insurance, and patient-access work, where documentation and EMR fluency matter more than bedside tasks. Because the employer sample is fragmented rather than dominated by one system, you should not wait for one brand-name employer to call back. A wider pipeline across large systems, multi-site groups, home health, hospice, and smaller practices is the safer strategy here.

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