Colorado · NAICS 22 · Annual, 2025

Utilities in Colorado

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 22 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Utilities (NAICS 22) employed about 16,200 people in Colorado across roughly 657 establishments, with average annual pay of $124,110.

Employment in Utilities in Colorado grew 13.0% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 47.5% above the all-industries average in Colorado. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 16,200. Quarterly values, full industry 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.

  • 16,200Employment, 2025
  • 657Establishments
  • $124,110Avg. annual pay
  • 0.6%Share of Colorado jobs
  • 1.00Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Utilities in Colorado, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 13,700 to 16,200.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 13,700; 2005 13,700; 2006 13,900; 2007 13,800; 2008 14,100; 2009 14,200; 2010 14,100; 2011 13,900; 2012 13,900; 2013 13,700; 2014 14,000; 2015 14,000; 2016 14,200; 2017 14,000; 2018 14,000; 2019 14,200; 2020 14,400; 2021 14,600; 2022 14,900; 2023 15,700; 2024 15,800; 2025 16,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202516,249657$124,114 2.5%pub.
202415,849679$120,453 1.2%pub.
202315,666691$114,697 4.9%pub.
202214,942669$108,340 2.5%pub.
202114,579640$103,377 1.4%pub.
202014,375611$100,567 1.4%pub.
201914,175601$95,658 1.3%pub.
201813,987609$91,303 0.1%pub.
201713,976602$87,874 1.4%pub.
201614,176603$84,927 1.0%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

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

Notes

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Utilities in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth

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