Colorado · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Colorado

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 188,100 people in Colorado across roughly 21,242 establishments, with average annual pay of $85,190.

Employment in Construction in Colorado grew 5.7% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 188,100Employment, 2025
  • 21,242Establishments
  • $85,190Avg. annual pay
  • 6.5%Share of Colorado jobs
  • 1.20Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in Colorado, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 154,800 to 188,100.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 154,800; 2005 163,500; 2006 171,100; 2007 171,200; 2008 165,200; 2009 134,300; 2010 118,400; 2011 115,500; 2012 119,000; 2013 130,800; 2014 145,300; 2015 151,800; 2016 158,300; 2017 166,600; 2018 176,200; 2019 182,000; 2020 177,900; 2021 180,400; 2022 186,200; 2023 189,900; 2024 190,500; 2025 188,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025188,12821,242$85,190 1.3%pub.
2024190,54521,773$81,362 0.4%pub.
2023189,88423,099$78,326 2.0%pub.
2022186,16622,460$75,514 3.2%pub.
2021180,44221,812$71,186 1.4%pub.
2020177,92921,095$68,165 2.2%pub.
2019181,98620,500$64,650 3.3%pub.
2018176,23819,953$62,440 5.8%pub.
2017166,63519,312$59,483 5.3%pub.
2016158,30618,509$57,390 4.3%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings37,29619.8%1.08pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction31,33116.7%1.24pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors119,50163.5%1.24pub.

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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Construction in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for construction in Colorado. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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