Colorado · NAICS 513 · Annual, 2025
Publishing Industries in Colorado
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 513 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Publishing Industries (NAICS 513) employed about 23,100 people in Colorado across roughly 2,832 establishments, with average annual pay of $201,770.
Employment in Publishing Industries in Colorado declined 23.4% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in Colorado as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.39). Average pay in the industry is 139.8% above the all-industries average in Colorado. 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.
- 23,100Employment, 2025
- 2,832Establishments
- $201,770Avg. annual pay
- 0.8%Share of Colorado jobs
- 1.39Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 30,200; 2005 29,400; 2006 29,000; 2007 28,400; 2008 27,500; 2009 24,900; 2010 23,700; 2011 23,500; 2012 22,800; 2013 21,700; 2014 21,300; 2015 21,300; 2016 21,100; 2017 21,600; 2018 22,200; 2019 22,400; 2020 23,000; 2021 24,600; 2022 25,700; 2023 25,000; 2024 23,300; 2025 23,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23,095 | 2,832 | $201,766 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2024 | 23,254 | 2,439 | $176,776 | 7.0% | pub. |
| 2023 | 25,012 | 2,555 | $166,342 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 25,684 | 2,111 | $160,020 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 24,616 | 1,758 | $151,323 | 6.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 23,021 | 1,487 | $135,928 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 22,419 | 1,392 | $128,153 | 1.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 22,158 | 1,334 | $113,657 | 2.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 21,618 | 1,298 | $109,075 | 2.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 21,140 | 1,226 | $104,646 | 0.9% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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.
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Publishing Industries in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for publishing industries 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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