Moving Companies in Salt Lake City, UT
Movers in the Salt Lake City metro typically charge $120 to $157 an hour for a two-person crew, with a full local job usually totaling $537 to $4,513 depending on your home's size. Moves that leave the metro area price out differently, running anywhere from $1,070 to $14,631 based on distance and how much you're bringing.
A few local quirks are worth knowing. The city's numeric grid, centered on Temple Square, can confuse a crew unfamiliar with how it bends near the foothills, so it helps to confirm your movers know the neighborhood. Winter inversion in January and February traps smog and cold air, while summer books up trucks and pushes rates higher — a spring or fall date usually has better availability. Homes up in the Avenues, Federal Heights, or Sugar House's hillside streets, or in nearby mountain towns, can draw a premium for steep inclines and multi-story walkups. If your truck needs to block a downtown street, or you live in a building with reserved elevator hours, check on parking permits or HOA rules ahead of time.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Salt Lake County.
57% arrived from another state. Long-haul moves need a carrier with active interstate operating authority — plenty of local companies don't hold one.
See licensed movers44% of departures went farther than 50 miles. Beyond that range moves are priced by weight and distance, and a state line means the carrier needs interstate authority.
See the full picture — 5-year trend, state flows and top routes
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $72,758 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Utah report $66,903. Long-distance arrivals are the higher-budget half of the market.
How this works: IRS SOI County-to-County Migration Data, 2022-2023. The IRS compares the address on consecutive tax returns, so every move here is a real filed household. The catch: it publishes annually with about a two-year lag, counts Salt Lake County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 18% of moves unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets instead. See the whole state on the Utah migration page →
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