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Security Clearance Space Jobs in the Salt Lake City Area

15 open cleared roles at 1 space company name a site in the Salt Lake City area, most of them in Magna and Salt Lake City; typical pay runs $90.3k–$278k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring cleared people in the Salt Lake City area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Northrop Grumman15$112k/yr

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 14:02 UTC

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What people ask about cleared space jobs in the Salt Lake City area

Which space companies are hiring cleared people in the Salt Lake City area?

Today, Northrop Grumman (15 roles). The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Salt Lake City area.

Where in the Salt Lake City area are the cleared space jobs?

Most are in Magna (13), Salt Lake City (2), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do cleared space jobs in the Salt Lake City area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $112k/yr, with typical pay from $90.3k–$278k/yr; 88.5% of Utah's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Utah has no law requiring a pay range in job postings, so a posting there can leave pay out (each state's law beside its postings).

Do cleared space jobs in the Salt Lake City area require US citizenship?

Of the 81 space postings in Utah whose text we read, 95.1% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 72.8% name a security clearance, by our research on who can apply, which compares every state. Each posting states its own rule, often citing export control under ITAR or the EAR.

How is this list made?

We read each employer's own job board every hour. A role is listed here when it is a US role and its own location line names a place in the Salt Lake City area (the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: Salt Lake and Tooele counties), by the same reading as our research on where space jobs are, and its posting names a security clearance level (Secret, Top Secret or TS/SCI) by the same reading as every cleared space job; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.