Ah yes, good 'ol SLC. Great quality of life if you like skiing and hiking. Your salary numbers are about right, top of the scale tends to be around $80-100k with the median in the high $70s. They call it 'Silicon Mountain' and despite the NSA putting their super datacenter there, a large number of small and medium sized software companies and a smattering of enterprise shops, the salary numbers don't change much there. What has changed is the price of real estate (nearly doubled over the last 15 years) and property taxes have increased in concert. Still more affordable than SV, but doesn't seem to be growing beyond it's roots.