Salt Lake City, UT jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Salt Lake City

• Head of ThickeningFLSmidth & Co. A/S
• Senior Director of Family Wealth ConsultingKeyBank
• Associate Director - Capital Infrastructure ProjectsGuidehouse
• Data Analyst - Data Integration & EnablementSystem One
• Marketing AssociateFlanker LV
• Corporate RecruiterExtra Space Storage
• Business Development RepresentativeGenesys
• Business Development Representative - BDRFilevine
• Inbound Business Development RepresentativeFilevine
• Business Development RepresentativeFranklin Covey

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Employers hiring most in Salt Lake City

1. L3HARRIS Technologies83 open roles
2. iCapital34 open roles
3. Harris Health Strategic Fund33 open roles
4. State of Utah25 open roles
5. Veterans Health Administration22 open roles
6. The Haskell Company16 open roles
7. Jabil14 open roles
8. Albany International13 open roles
9. Immigration and Customs Enforcement12 open roles
10. L3HARRIS Technologies Integrated Systems L.P.12 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Salt Lake City

• Ttec20,001–100,000 employees
• University of Utah5,001–20,000 employees
• Alkami Technology1,001–5,000 employees
• ZoomInfo1,001–5,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Salt Lake City layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Salt Lake City in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Where Salt Lake City ranks

• #3 Best cities for software and engineering jobs in the Mountain West 278 openings
• #6 Best cities for director and executive jobs in the Mountain West 16%
• #7 Best cities for pay after cost of living in the Mountain West $127k
• #8 Best cities for junior jobs in the Mountain West 30%
• #9 Best cities for AI-skill jobs in the Mountain West 8%
• #14 Best cities for mid-career professionals in the Mountain West 51%

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Salt Lake County outlook: Steady

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

• Private-sector jobs up 3.8% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 2.9% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.4 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+8,230 jobs), construction (+4,130 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−4,613 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Salt Lake City. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Utah County nonprofit to close Heber City food pantry; announces layoffsKSL · Oct 26, 2026
• ‘We need help’: Homeless cleanup nonprofit furloughs employees, faces full shutdownYahoo · Oct 23, 2026
• The Gambling Wire: Utah Sues Kalshi as Flutter Plans 1,400 Job CutsGambling Insider · Oct 21, 2026
• Are you giving taxpayers shares? — Tucker Carlson grills Kevin O'Leary over $15 billion Utah data center asking taxpayers to payBenzinga on MSN · Oct 20, 2026
• He lost his ghost-writing job. She was let go as an app designer. Here’s how they think Utah should protect workers — and rein in AI.The Salt Lake Tribune on MSN · Oct 19, 2026
• As AI races forward, Utah researchers work to keep humans in controlKUTV on MSN · Oct 8, 2026

Learn and get funded in Salt Lake City

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Salt Lake City. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Utah? How to file for unemployment in Utah (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

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Salt Lake County economy

• 3.7%

  unemployment, Aug 2026

  3.8% the month before

• 703,582

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 1,184,689

  people in Salt Lake County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $94,658

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 44%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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