Project Manager Jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

The best local government anchor is the BLS management major group, which showed a $126,150 median, a $141,370 mean, and a $86,180-to-$172,060 middle range in Salt Lake City-Murray for 2025 annual data. Recent posting-based salary ranges for this category center on about $101k to $157k, while Utah's mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation cluster was about $87,555 in September 2026 from a smaller statewide sample of new postings (n=505).

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 196 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $78,650 at the 25th percentile, $115,000 at the median and $148,481 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Salt Lake City-Murray is a good but selective market for management, product, and project candidates right now. Metro unemployment was 3.7% in August 2026, total nonfarm employment was 861.3 thousand, and professional and business services employment rose 4.3098% year over year, which supports continued hiring activity in delivery-heavy functions. For the occupation cluster, Utah-wide employment was down 1.3% year over year while active postings were up 3.5% in September 2026, which looks more like selective replacement hiring than broad team expansion. Local openings are real—more than 400 postings across more than 200 companies over the last 90 days—but the mix skews mid/senior and mostly on-site.

Best positioned: Experienced project or program managers who can prove budgeting, scheduling, risk control, stakeholder management, and on-site or hybrid execution have the best odds, especially if they already qualify for PMP or equivalent PMO discipline.

Main caution: Do not assume this is a broad remote product-manager market; the clearest recent local product signal was a five-days-per-week in-office AI/ML product role, and only about 10% of sampled openings are remote.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 426 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. UTN: 15 open roles
2. Trenchant: 14 open roles
3. Harris Group: 12 open roles
4. Northrop Grumman: 10 open roles
5. WGU: 6 open roles
6. Air Force Civilian Service: 5 open roles
7. Alto Cirra: 5 open roles
8. CHG Healthcare, Inc.: 5 open roles
9. Elite Executive Solutions: 5 open roles
10. Kelso Industries: 5 open roles

Where the openings are

• Salt Lake City: 263
• Draper: 32
• Layton: 16
• West Valley City: 10
• Sandy: 10
• Murray: 9
• Park City: 9
• Midvale: 7

Work arrangement

on-site 305 (73%), hybrid 95 (23%), remote 20 (5%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is strongest where employers need coordination, budgets, timelines, and cross-functional delivery—not necessarily pure consumer product ownership. Salt Lake metro professional and business services employed 154.9 thousand people in August 2026 and grew 4.3098% year over year, while Utah financial activities employment reached 102.4 thousand and grew 1.5% year over year. That points to the healthiest local base for program and project roles in consulting, enterprise operations, finance, compliance, and client delivery. The evidence is uneven by sub-role. The metro had 69,410 management workers in 2025, but the local BLS release does not separately publish a Salt Lake City estimate for project management specialists or management analysts, so the official wage anchor is broader than the exact titles most job seekers care about. Recent posting data still shows more than 400 openings across more than 200 companies and a fragmented employer base, which is good for long-tail targeting but means you need a wider search list than just a few marquee employers. Pure product management demand is thinner in the public local evidence. A concrete recent example is WGU's Senior AI/ML Product Manager opening focused on enterprise AI adoption, governance, and platform enablement, with five days per week in office. That suggests product candidates should bias toward enterprise, platform, AI governance, and operational product work rather than assume a deep local pool of remote consumer-PM roles.

• Program and project delivery (high): Best fit for candidates who can show budgets, schedules, risk control, and stakeholder coordination; those are the most-requested skills locally, and the metro's professional and business services base is growing.
• Enterprise AI and platform product work (moderate): A smaller but attractive niche signaled by WGU's in-office Senior AI/ML Product Manager opening focused on adoption, governance, and enablement.
• Finance and governance transformation (moderate): Utah financial activities employment was 102.4 thousand in August 2026 and up 1.5% year over year, supporting roles that blend compliance, process change, and delivery discipline.

Where to focus: Target experienced project and program roles first, keep a separate enterprise-product search running, and deprioritize remote-only searches.

Roles worth searching next

• Business analyst: It uses the same stakeholder management, coordination, budgeting, and data-analysis muscles that show up in local management, product, and project postings.
• Data analyst: Local postings already reward data analysis, and product or program experience can translate into decision support and KPI ownership.
• Implementation consultant: Implementation work overlaps heavily with scheduling, stakeholder coordination, risk handling, and on-site client delivery.
• Operations analyst or process improvement specialist: This path fits candidates whose best evidence is workflow improvement, budgeting, coordination, and cross-functional execution rather than product ownership.

What postings ask for

• PMP (differentiator | near-term): PMP is the most commonly named certification in the local sample and appears in about 15% of postings, making it a useful screen-clearing credential for experienced PM candidates. Who: Mid-career project and program managers who already have qualifying experience.
• Project management (table_stakes | immediate): Project management is the single most-requested hard skill in the local sample, showing up in about 40% of postings. Who: Everyone in this category, especially candidates with unclear titles who need to prove transferable delivery experience.
• Risk management (differentiator | immediate): Risk management appears in about 20% of local postings and is part of what separates real delivery operators from general coordinators. Who: Project, program, implementation, and transformation candidates.
• Budgeting and scheduling (table_stakes | immediate): Scheduling and budgeting each show up in about 15% of local postings, and the BLS describes them as core responsibilities for project management specialists. Who: Entry-level and career-switching candidates who need concrete proof of delivery ownership.
• Stakeholder management (table_stakes | immediate): Stakeholder management appears in about 15% of local postings, and official occupational guidance treats communication across project stakeholders as core work. Who: All candidates, but especially people moving in from operations or functional specialist roles.
• Data analysis (differentiator | near-term): Data analysis shows up in about 10% of local postings and is one of the cleaner bridges from project work into product, ops, and strategy roles. Who: Project managers who want to widen their target list into product, business analysis, or operations.

Questions about this market

What do Management, Product & Project roles pay in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

The best local government anchor is the BLS management major group, which showed a $126,150 median, a $141,370 mean, and a $86,180-to-$172,060 middle range in Salt Lake City-Murray for 2025 annual data. Recent posting-based salary ranges for this category center on about $101k to $157k, while Utah's mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation cluster was about $87,555 in September 2026 from a smaller statewide sample of new postings (n=505). This is a solid-paying market, but the better pay sits in experienced management and technical-delivery roles rather than broad-access entry jobs. Salt Lake management occupations made up 8.4% of local employment in May 2025, above the national 7.2%, so the metro does sustain a meaningful management layer.

Where is demand for Management, Product & Project roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT concentrated?

Real opportunity is strongest where employers need coordination, budgets, timelines, and cross-functional delivery—not necessarily pure consumer product ownership. Salt Lake metro professional and business services employed 154.9 thousand people in August 2026 and grew 4.3098% year over year, while Utah financial activities employment reached 102.4 thousand and grew 1.5% year over year. That points to the healthiest local base for program and project roles in consulting, enterprise operations, finance, compliance, and client delivery. The evidence is uneven by sub-role. The metro had 69,410 management workers in 2025, but the local BLS release does not separately publish a Salt Lake City estimate for project management specialists or management analysts, so the official wage anchor is broader than the exact titles most job seekers care about. Recent posting data still shows more than 400 openings across more than 200 companies and a fragmented employer base, which is good for long-tail targeting but means you need a wider search list than just a few marquee employers. Pure product management demand is thinner in the public local evidence. A concrete recent example is WGU's Senior AI/ML Product Manager opening focused on enterprise AI adoption, governance, and platform enablement, with five days per week in office. That suggests product candidates should bias toward enterprise, platform, AI governance, and operational product work rather than assume a deep local pool of remote consumer-PM roles.

Which employers are hiring the most Management, Product & Project talent in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT?

Recent postings show the most activity from UTN (30 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Management, Product & Project roles in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 25% hybrid, with 70% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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