Salt Lake City, UT (population: 184,856) has six vocational schools within its city limits. University of Utah, the highest ranked school in the city with a vocational program, has a total student population of 29,284. It is the 129th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Utah.
Vocational students from Salt Lake City schools who go on to become vocational educators, event planners, landscape architects, landscape designers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 114,420 people working as vocational education teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $52,030. Also, Middle school teachers make on average $53,550 per year and there are about 665,420 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Salt Lake City area alone, there are 2,630 employed middle school teachers earning an average salary of $43,660. Vocational education teachers in this area earn $40,500/yr and there are 940 employed.
Salt Lake City lies in Salt Lake county, which is one of the 16 counties in Utah. Overall, the Salt Lake City area has 609,730 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.8% unemployment rate, $19.97/hr average worker wage, and a $41,530 average annual salary. Thus, about 1.535 out of every 1000 jobs in Salt Lake City are held by vocational education teachers, and 4.310/1000 are held by middle school teachers.
Of the 6 vocational schools in Salt Lake City, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, University of Phoenix-Utah Campus comes out as the most expensive ($24,719/yr) for vocational students, with Latter-day Saints Business College as the lowest, reported at only $9,403/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Salt Lake City |
| West Valley City | UT | 125,842 | 2 | 24.4175 | 17 | 7.5 miles |
| Bountiful | UT | 45,723 | 1 | 31.5415 | 2 | 7.6 miles |
| Taylorsville | UT | 59,591 | 0 | - | 0 | 8.3 miles |
| Murray | UT | 47,260 | 5 | 23.4081 | 160 | 9.2 miles |
| South Jordan | UT | 57,903 | 1 | 13.1531 | 4 | 15.4 miles |
| Riverton | UT | 43,424 | 1 | 20.2082 | 84 | 18.0 miles |
| Ogden | UT | 83,448 | 4 | 19.4308 | 199 | 31.2 miles |
| Orem | UT | 95,419 | 4 | 27.4 | 168 | 35.3 miles |
| Provo | UT | 120,524 | 6 | 30.5292 | 247 | 39.7 miles |