Five years of job growth and wages that have finally started ticking upward have Utah ranked as having among the hottest job markets in the U.S., but residents still aren’t feeling all that great about the types of jobs available.
Residents rated a lack of good jobs as their largest concern among all quality-of-life issues in a new report released this week by the Utah Foundation, a nonpartisan think-tank based in Salt Lake City.
Utahns still rate themselves as having a high quality of life overall, but job quality was one of several aspects where they still see the state as lacking, including quality of public schools, affordable housing, air and water quality and the acceptance and respectfulness of individual and group differences, according to the report.
The report, titled Utah Foundation Quality of Life Index: From Concern About Jobs to an Embrace of Natural Surroundings in 2015, calculates an index score based on a survey of more than 600 residents.
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