State labor market
Colorado labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Colorado. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Colorado hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Colorado.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Colorado workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
Business operations specialists, all other
45,670estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
44,650estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Colorado figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$100,260/yr Colorado median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$138,390/yr Colorado median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$62,230/yr Colorado median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$97,030/yr Colorado median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$63,410/yr Colorado median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$182,730/yr Colorado median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Colorado occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Colorado workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Property, real estate, and community association managers$100,080/yr state median · 2,230 workers+43.0%vs. U.S. $69,990/yr
- Administrative services managers$157,000/yr state median · 2,340 workers+37.6%vs. U.S. $114,130/yr
- Lodging managers$91,750/yr state median · 1,100 workers+32.5%vs. U.S. $69,250/yr
- Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers$307,490/yr state median · 5,830 workers+32.5%vs. U.S. $232,140/yr
- Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers$77,600/yr state median · 1,400 workers+32.3%vs. U.S. $58,650/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Physicists$104,580/yr state median · 1,050 workers-39.3%vs. U.S. $172,250/yr
- Business teachers, postsecondary$78,210/yr state median · 2,080 workers-21.1%vs. U.S. $99,080/yr
- Plant and system operators, all other$51,600/yr state median · 1,050 workers-17.4%vs. U.S. $62,470/yr
- Personal financial advisors$89,280/yr state median · 6,730 workers-15.0%vs. U.S. $105,070/yr
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents$67,010/yr state median · 12,360 workers-14.8%vs. U.S. $78,660/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Colorado
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Colorado. Links marked “Colorado report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Colorado report is available.
696 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.