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Metro overview, all trades

Home-service contractors in Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

The Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metro area has 3,367 home-service contractors across 11 trades, or 26.56 per 10,000 residents.

The largest trade here is other home service, with 1,864 records and 55.4% of the metro’s home-service total; the smallest with any record at all is pool, with 21.

Against Utah’s own rate per resident for each trade, Salt Lake City-Murray carries more roofing contractors than the state average. It carries fewer pest control contractors than the state average.

Among the 3 Utah metro areas this site carries, ranked by records per ten thousand residents in Salt Lake City-Murray's largest trades: it is 2nd of 3 for other home service, around the middle; it is the densest of them for HVAC; and it is 2nd of 3 for landscaping, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes rather than every one in Utah.

The facts for Salt Lake City-Murray

Home-service contractors in this metro
3,367
Per 10,000 residents
26.56 per 10,000
Trades with at least one record
11 of 11
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
140
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
3
Independent, franchise, corporate
3,235 independent, 39 franchise brand, 53 corporate owned, 40 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.23% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.84% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,267,864, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about Salt Lake City-Murray

Other home service is Salt Lake City-Murray's largest trade, and more than half of every record this site holds here sits in it. It holds more than three times as many records as HVAC, the next largest.

In order, Salt Lake City-Murray's four largest trades are other home service, HVAC, landscaping and cleaning. Other home service alone reaches half of every record on this page.

All eleven trades carry at least one record in Salt Lake City-Murray. The smallest of them here is pool.

Salt Lake City-Murray's three smallest trades are pool, pest control and painting. Between them they still hold a workable share of the metro.

Every trade in Salt Lake City-Murray clears the record floor a trade page has to meet, so each has a page of its own. That is a statement about how thick this metro's thinnest trade is.

Per resident, Salt Lake City-Murray sits close to the Utah rate, so the counts here read as ordinary for the state.

Roofing takes a larger share of Salt Lake City-Murray than of Utah, which is the clearest way this metro's mix departs from its state's.

Pest control is thinner in Salt Lake City-Murray than across Utah, the mirror of the lean above.

Read per resident, the top of the table does not move: other home service, HVAC and landscaping are Salt Lake City-Murray's three densest trades, and pool its thinnest.

No Salt Lake City-Murray trade carries a measured licensed share, so every row of that column reads as not published rather than as zero.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for Salt Lake City-Murray, so no churn figure appears here rather than a zero standing in for one.

A median hourly wage is published for plumbing, electrical, HVAC and roofing in Salt Lake City-Murray. Of those, plumbing pays the most and roofing the least.

Cleaning, flooring, landscaping, other home service, painting, pest control and pool carry no wage figure for Salt Lake City-Murray, so those rows are blank rather than filled from a neighbouring occupation.

Electrical carries Salt Lake City-Murray's largest published employment count: the occupational series counts 5,710 workers across the metro, and this site publishes 132 electrical records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other. Plumbing, HVAC and roofing follow it.

Of the Salt Lake City-Murray records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands and concentrate in roofing; the most franchised trade here is cleaning.

Within Salt Lake City-Murray, electrical and pool are the most independently held trades and pest control the least.

Almost none of Salt Lake City-Murray's records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts here describe nearly the whole metro. Painting holds what little of that bucket the metro has.

Roofing is the Salt Lake City-Murray trade whose records most often carry no street address, and pool the one whose records most often do. What a blank street line means is set out on the methodology page.

More Salt Lake City-Murray records first appeared over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this metro grew. Plumbing added the largest share of new records and roofing lost the largest share to closed flags.

The cities inside Salt Lake City-Murray that differ from the wider metro enough to carry pages of their own are Salt Lake City, Sandy, West Valley City, Millcreek and Draper, and 2 more. Each of them carries one trade.

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT sits inside Utah alone, so the labour market this page counts and the licensing regime that governs it are the same geography.

Ordered by population, the metro areas either side of Salt Lake City-Murray on this site are Memphis above it and Birmingham below it. Those are the metros closest to it in population.

Ordered by records per resident rather than population, Salt Lake City-Murray's neighbours are Columbus and Ogden. A metro can sit high on one of these orderings and low on the other.

Every trade in Salt Lake City-Murray

TradeContractorsPer 10,000Licensed shareMedian hourly wage
Cleaning1771.40Not published
Electrical1321.04Not published$30.11
Flooring1741.37Not published
HVAC2792.20Not published$29.23
Landscaping2672.11Not published
Painting1060.84Not published
Pest control600.47Not published
Plumbing1351.06Not published$31.15
Pool210.17Not published
Roofing1521.20Not published$23.18
Other home service1,86414.70Not published

Wage occupations for this metro area: Electricians, Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters, Roofers. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026.

All 11 trades here clear the 8-record floor, so no trade URL of this metro redirects here. The methodology page sets out what the floor is for.

Cities inside Salt Lake City-Murray with their own page

CityTradesRecords covered
Salt Lake Cityother home service330
Sandyother home service167
West Valley Cityother home service134
Millcreekother home service107
Draperother home service100
Midvaleother home service75
Rivertonother home service62

The gate a city has to clear is on the methodology page.

Home-service contractors in Utah carries the boards and the consumer-protection route for this metro’s first-named state.