Erin Mendenhall (Democratic) has been Mayor of Salt Lake City since 1 Jan 2020. Unemployment rate: 3.5% of the labour force in Aug 2026, 1.5 percentage points higher than when Erin Mendenhall took office in January 2020, while Utah's rose 1.1 percentage points. Among the 71 cities with a year or more of figures, Salt Lake City ranks 12th on population growth and 93rd of 106 on the fall in violent crime. Over the same months Utah's average hourly pay edged down 0.3% a year; Salt Lake City's edged up 1.0%; the gap was widest in Jun 2023, +7.9% against −1.3%. For comparison, the average hourly pay edged up 0.3% a year under Jackie Biskupski, 2016 to 2020.

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