Colorado · NAICS 92 · Annual, 2025
Public Administration in Colorado
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 92 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Public Administration (NAICS 92) employed about 166,300 people in Colorado across roughly 1,836 establishments, with average annual pay of $87,020.
Employment in Public Administration in Colorado grew 10.6% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 166,300. 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.
- 166,300Employment, 2025
- 1,836Establishments
- $87,020Avg. annual pay
- 5.8%Share of Colorado jobs
- 1.14Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 129,000; 2005 130,100; 2006 133,100; 2007 135,100; 2008 138,500; 2009 140,000; 2010 141,900; 2011 140,300; 2012 140,400; 2013 140,600; 2014 141,500; 2015 143,500; 2016 146,400; 2017 147,900; 2018 149,500; 2019 151,000; 2020 150,300; 2021 149,700; 2022 152,200; 2023 160,700; 2024 166,100; 2025 166,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 166,266 | 1,836 | $87,021 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 166,106 | 1,876 | $83,299 | 3.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 160,723 | 1,873 | $79,550 | 5.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 152,159 | 1,869 | $76,451 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 149,685 | 1,808 | $72,878 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2020 | 150,325 | 1,796 | $70,145 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 151,020 | 1,756 | $66,411 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 149,533 | 1,744 | $64,557 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 147,912 | 1,767 | $62,291 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2016 | 146,382 | 1,768 | $60,868 | 2.0% | pub. |
† 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 · 8 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of public administration | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 921 | Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support | 99,515 | 59.9% | 1.63 | pub. |
| 922 | Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities | 28,846 | 17.3% | 0.80 | pub. |
| 923 | Administration of Human Resource Programs | 10,434 | 6.3% | 0.63 | pub. |
| 924 | Administration of Environmental Quality Programs | 11,041 | 6.6% | 1.61 | pub. |
| 925 | Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development | 872 | 0.5% | 0.43 | pub. |
| 926 | Administration of Economic Programs | 7,273 | 4.4% | 0.61 | pub. |
| 927 | Space Research and Technology | 59 | 0.0% | 0.18 | pub. |
| 928 | National Security and International Affairs | 8,227 | 5.0% | 0.73 | pub. |
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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Public Administration in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth
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