Salt Lake City, UT / Bookkeeping & CAS
Bookkeeping and CAS firms · Salt Lake City
Offshore bookkeeping support, trained for your firm.
For Salt Lake City-area accounting firms: your senior bookkeepers shouldn’t be chasing documents, cleaning inboxes or prepping every close by hand. We train Filipino bookkeeping staff to take that load off your team, and we manage them for you.
Salt Lake City · May 2025 BLS
$24.67 an hour
Median wage for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks in the Salt Lake City metro, 1% above the national median of $24.36. Most earn between $21.34 and $29.70. 6,310 people work in this occupation across the metro.
Bookkeeping and CAS firms in Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake City metro had 1,305 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms in 2024, 100 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 1st of the 50 largest US metros. It’s a growing market, up 7.7% on 2023. More firms competing for the same local hires tends to push wages up. These firms are 1.24 times as common here as their national share, so Salt Lake City is a real hub for this work. Together they employ 7,294 people at an average of $1,766 a week. Jobs in this occupation are 0.86 times as concentrated here as nationally.
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages, private sector.
A full-time seat in Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City has the 25th highest median wage for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks among the 50 largest US metros. Even at the top of our draft range, a managed Molave role costs about 25% less per hour than a local hire with employer costs. That’s a meaningful saving, even before counting recruiting and turnover.
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, Salt Lake City metropolitan area. Employer costs of about 30% rounded from BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation. Both monthly figures use 160 hours. Molave figures are draft ranges.
Nearby metros
How Salt Lake City compares.
Of these metros, Salt Lake City pays the least for this work, $2.98 an hour below Denver at the median. Local hiring is cheaper here, so the case for Molave rests more on training, management and cover.
| Metro | Median wage | Middle 50% earn | Firms (2024) | Change on 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City, UT | $24.67 | $21.34–$29.70 | 1,305 | +7.7% |
| Denver, CO | $27.65 | $23.07–$33.11 | 2,630 | −1.9% |
| Phoenix, AZ | $24.99 | $22.40–$29.00 | 2,995 | +2.8% |
Wages: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks; “middle 50%” is the 25th to 75th percentile hourly wage. Firm counts: BLS QCEW, 2024.
Roles we train for Salt Lake City accounting firms.
Each role is trained on your tools and SOPs before day one. Full role descriptions →
Workflows
Work we take off your plate.
- Month-end close prep and checklist tracking
- Weekly document requests and follow-up
- Bank and credit card reconciliation prep
- AP runs and AR collection reminders
- Cleanup and catch-up projects
Working your hours
Salt Lake City hours, covered.
Salt Lake City questions
Straight answers, with local numbers.
How many accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms are in Salt Lake City?
1,305 in 2024, according to the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, +7.7% on 2023.
What does a local hire cost Salt Lake City accounting firms?
The median wage for bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks in the Salt Lake City metro is $24.67 an hour (May 2025). Most earn between $21.34 and $29.70. With payroll taxes and benefits, a full-time median hire costs about $5,131 a month at 160 hours. A managed Molave role costs $2,240–$3,840 a month at the same hours.
Can Molave staff work Salt Lake City hours?
Yes. Staff work Salt Lake City business hours. A 9am–5pm day in Salt Lake City is 11pm–7am in Manila during US daylight saving time and midnight–8am in winter, a night shift that’s standard in the Filipino outsourcing industry.
Book a staffing call
Start with one role for your Salt Lake City firm.
Tell us what’s stuck. We’ll come back with the role, the person and the price, with no upfront recruiting fee.