Colorado · All industries · Annual, 2025

Employment in Colorado

Name: Employment in Colorado
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Employment, establishments and average pay across all industries in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, employers in Colorado had about 2,891,100 people on their payrolls across roughly 250,089 establishments, with average annual pay of $84,160.

Total employment in Colorado grew 11.1% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry and occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Colorado are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

2,891,100Employment, 2025
250,089Establishments
$84,160Avg. annual pay

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all industries · all ownerships

Employment by sector, 2025

NAICS sector · 20 sectors

Code	Sector	Employment	Share of Colorado	LQ	Source
11	Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting	17,358	0.6%	0.76	pub.
21	Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction	20,716	0.7%	1.95	pub.
23	Construction	188,128	6.5%	1.20	pub.
31-33	Manufacturing	146,774	5.1%	0.63	pub.
22	Utilities	16,249	0.6%	1.00	pub.
42	Wholesale Trade	114,418	4.0%	1.02	pub.
44-45	Retail Trade	269,215	9.3%	0.94	pub.
48-49	Transportation and Warehousing	120,962	4.2%	0.86	pub.
51	Information	72,945	2.5%	1.31	pub.
52	Finance and Insurance	113,532	3.9%	0.96	pub.
53	Real Estate and Rental and Leasing	56,956	2.0%	1.25	pub.
54	Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services	292,561	10.1%	1.45	pub.
55	Management of Companies and Enterprises	46,744	1.6%	0.97	pub.
56	Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services	152,563	5.3%	0.90	pub.
61	Educational Services	243,245	8.4%	0.98	pub.
62	Health Care and Social Assistance	400,338	13.9%	0.86	pub.
71	Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation	71,742	2.5%	1.27	pub.
72	Accommodation and Food Services	285,701	9.9%	1.08	pub.
81	Other Services (except Public Administration)	91,946	3.2%	1.05	pub.
92	Public Administration	166,266	5.8%	1.14	pub.

One public page per sector and per 3-digit subsector, annual, with the mark on every value. A sector name is a link where its page is built.

Last ten years

Annual · all industries · 10 years

Year	Employment	Estab.	Avg. annual pay	Change	Source
2025	2,891,093	250,089	$84,157	0.2%	pub.
2024	2,897,901	249,868	$80,287	0.5%	pub.
2023	2,882,674	258,519	$77,114	2.4%	pub.
2022	2,814,975	245,462	$74,432	4.3%	pub.
2021	2,699,891	229,466	$70,563	3.8%	pub.
2020	2,602,371	218,502	$66,649	4.9%	pub.
2019	2,736,105	210,965	$61,820	2.3%	pub.
2018	2,674,030	205,137	$58,941	2.5%	pub.
2017	2,609,770	198,720	$56,914	2.2%	pub.
2016	2,552,504	191,895	$54,664	2.3%	pub.

Employment by occupation group, 2025

SOC major group · 22 groups

Code	Occupation group	Employment	Share of Colorado	LQ
11-0000	Management occupations	159,279	5.5%	0.78
13-0000	Business and financial operations occupations	265,069	9.2%	1.37
15-0000	Computer and mathematical occupations	135,350	4.7%	1.40
17-0000	Architecture and engineering occupations	72,589	2.5%	1.50
19-0000	Life, physical, and social science occupations	37,496	1.3%	1.38
21-0000	Community and social service occupations	56,514	1.9%	1.15
23-0000	Legal occupations	27,576	0.9%	1.14
25-0000	Educational instruction and library occupations	156,381	5.4%	0.93
27-0000	Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	41,244	1.4%	1.07
29-0000	Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	157,864	5.5%	0.87
31-0000	Healthcare support occupations	107,252	3.7%	0.73
33-0000	Protective service occupations	65,776	2.3%	0.95
35-0000	Food preparation and serving related occupations	269,925	9.3%	1.06
37-0000	Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	89,194	3.1%	1.05
39-0000	Personal care and service occupations	75,478	2.6%	1.26
41-0000	Sales and related occupations	299,046	10.3%	1.20
43-0000	Office and administrative support occupations	311,876	10.8%	0.92
45-0000	Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	4,935	0.2%	0.60
47-0000	Construction and extraction occupations	137,613	4.8%	1.15
49-0000	Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	109,917	3.8%	0.97
51-0000	Production occupations	94,935	3.3%	0.59
53-0000	Transportation and material moving occupations	215,784	7.5%	0.85

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data. They carry no published or estimated mark and no reliability score, because there is no published occupation census to mark them against.

Where these numbers come from

What this page shows

Every industry sector in the state, and every occupation group, with annual employment for the most recent complete year in the current vintage, and the state’s own total over every actual year. Figures are for all ownerships combined and are not seasonally adjusted. County figures, quarterly figures and the full industry and occupation depth are in the app; the nation and every state are free there.

Reading the table

A state value is DTG’s value for the state: the value the Bureau of Labor Statistics published where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate where QCEW withheld it. It is not a sum of the state’s counties. Where a value was withheld in QCEW it is marked as estimated rather than left blank, with its reliability score, and the legend beneath the table names the marker. Every figure on the page comes from one named vintage, stated beside the page, and does not change until the next release.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry, Occupation.

Notes

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Every industry in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth

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