Colorado · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Colorado
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 41,200 people in Colorado worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $90,400.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Colorado grew 8.4% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full 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.
- 41,200Employment, 2025
- $90,400Mean annual wage
- 1.4%Share of Colorado jobs
- 1.07Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 35,200; 2005 35,800; 2006 37,000; 2007 37,700; 2008 37,500; 2009 35,100; 2010 34,400; 2011 34,600; 2012 35,400; 2013 36,200; 2014 37,300; 2015 38,300; 2016 39,100; 2017 39,700; 2018 41,400; 2019 42,500; 2020 38,000; 2021 38,100; 2022 40,000; 2023 41,500; 2024 42,100; 2025 41,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41,244 | $90,395 | 2.0% |
| 2024 | 42,091 | $85,038 | 1.3% |
| 2023 | 41,534 | $82,687 | 3.8% |
| 2022 | 40,022 | $79,101 | 5.0% |
| 2021 | 38,108 | $74,494 | 0.2% |
| 2020 | 38,045 | $67,552 | 10.5% |
| 2019 | 42,511 | $62,093 | 2.8% |
| 2018 | 41,370 | $59,318 | 4.3% |
| 2017 | 39,653 | $56,716 | 1.3% |
| 2016 | 39,137 | $55,092 | 2.2% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth
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