Mechatronics technician salary in Utah (2026)

How much does a mechatronics technician make in Utah?

With no BLS state estimate, the fullest percentile picture for Utah comes from Salary.com. Its middle 50% of mechatronics technicians earn between $49,421 and $63,786, with the average landing at $56,221. That is a tight band, only about $14,000 from the 25th to the 75th percentile, which tells you Utah pay for this role clusters closely with little spread.

The bottom 10% sit near $43,229 and the top 10% reach about $70,673. Notice that Salary.com's Utah top decile ($70,673) barely clears the national median of $73,900. In other words, a top-earning Utah technician by this model earns roughly what a typical one earns nationwide. That gap says more about which employers report data here than about the real ceiling for a strong technician at a semiconductor fab or an automation shop.

Utah mechatronics salary: BLS vs Salary.com vs Indeed

Three sources, three methods. BLS surveys employers directly, but it suppresses Utah for this occupation because the sample is too thin, so there is no federal number to anchor to. Salary.com models HR compensation data and lands at a $56,221 average. Indeed averages actual postings and reported wages and shows $26.04 an hour, about $54,163 a year.

Lean on the Indeed figure with caution. It rests on just 2 reported salaries, which is far too few to trust as a market rate (anything under about 10 is noise). Still, Salary.com and Indeed land close to each other, both in the mid-$50,000s, so treat that range as your realistic Utah starting point. When you negotiate, cite the national median of $73,900 as the ceiling to push toward, especially at a fab or automation builder, and hold mid-$50Ks as your floor.

Job outlook for mechatronics technicians in Utah

Utah is one of the better outlook stories in this dataset. The state projects mechatronics and electro-mechanical technician jobs growing about 3.5% between 2024 and 2034, against just 0.7% nationally. That is roughly five times the national pace, even if the raw numbers stay small on a base of around 400 jobs.

The state expects about 40 openings a year. Most of those are not brand-new positions. They come from turnover and retirements as current technicians move up or leave. For a small field, 40 openings a year against 400 jobs is healthy churn, which means roles show up regularly even though the field is not adding headcount fast. Utah's Department of Workforce Services publishes the underlying projections.

How Utah compares with nearby states

Utah sits in the Census West region, and on paper it looks underpaid next to its neighbors. Colorado reports a BLS median of $74,730 and Arizona $80,930, both well above Utah's modelled $56,221 average, and even Idaho next door posts $70,830. Utah has no BLS figure to compare directly, but the pattern is clear: the mountain-west states with published data all pay their mechatronics technicians more than Salary.com's Utah model suggests.

Who hires mechatronics technicians in Utah

Two of Utah's biggest hardware employers hire exactly these skills. Texas Instruments runs a 300mm semiconductor fab in Lehi (LFAB), with a second fab, LFAB2, under construction. TI hires manufacturing maintenance and equipment technicians to troubleshoot and maintain fab tools, and its postings ask for a technical certificate or associate degree in industrial automation, robotics, or electronics.

North of Salt Lake, Autoliv builds automotive airbag systems across Ogden, Tremonton, and Brigham City. Its Ogden machine build facility posts automation maintenance, PLC, and test technician roles, wiring electrical panels and assembling production machinery from schematics. Between a semiconductor fab and an automotive safety builder, Utah's technician demand is real even if the state wage data is thin.

How to earn more as a mechatronics technician in Utah

Stack PLC and controls certs

Utah's top-paying technician jobs are at the fab and the automation shop, and both screen for controls skills. A documented PLC and robotics cert stack moves you from general maintenance pay toward the top of Salary.com's Utah band ($70,673) and past it. See our certifications guide for the stack Utah automation employers actually ask for.

Cross into Colorado or Arizona

Utah's modelled average is mid-$50Ks. Drive or relocate a few hours and the BLS medians jump: Colorado pays $74,730, Arizona $80,930, and Nevada $82,010. If you are near the borders or open to moving, those markets pay a published median $18,000 to $26,000 above Utah's Salary.com average for the same work.

Move up to the controls-engineer track

The national 90th percentile for this technician role is $109,890, and the ceiling above it is the controls or automation engineer path. At a fab like TI Lehi or an automation builder like Autoliv, technicians who learn to program and design systems move into engineering pay. See the controls engineer career guide and our mechatronics salary guide for the jump.

Sources & methodology

Figures on this page come from four independent datasets, retrieved 2026-07-14. Where they disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than averaged away; the source-comparison section explains why each number differs.

• BLS OEWS, SOC 17-3024, May 2025 national and state estimates (state file oesm25st.zip). Employer-reported, the authoritative baseline.
• Salary.com, Mechatronics Technician in Utah, as of July 01, 2026. HR-reported and modelled averages.
• Indeed, mechatronics technician salaries in Utah, based on 2 reported salaries. Posting-derived.
• Projections Central, 2024–2034 state occupational projections produced by Utah's labor market agency (state source).
• Texas Instruments Careers (Lehi, UT)
• Autoliv US - Automation Technician (Ogden, UT)