Colorado · SOC 51-0000 · Annual, 2025
Production occupations in Colorado
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 51-0000 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 94,900 people in Colorado worked in production occupations (SOC 51-0000), with an average annual wage of $60,290.
Employment in production occupations in Colorado declined 6.8% from 2004 to 2025. This occupation group is less concentrated in Colorado than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.59). 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.
- 94,900Employment, 2025
- $60,290Mean annual wage
- 3.3%Share of Colorado jobs
- 0.59Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 101,900; 2005 102,200; 2006 102,900; 2007 103,100; 2008 101,600; 2009 91,000; 2010 89,000; 2011 91,300; 2012 93,800; 2013 95,900; 2014 99,500; 2015 102,300; 2016 103,000; 2017 102,000; 2018 102,400; 2019 103,500; 2020 98,500; 2021 99,900; 2022 102,400; 2023 99,200; 2024 96,200; 2025 94,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94,935 | $60,288 | 1.3% |
| 2024 | 96,198 | $57,777 | 3.0% |
| 2023 | 99,172 | $55,047 | 3.2% |
| 2022 | 102,405 | $52,697 | 2.5% |
| 2021 | 99,938 | $50,452 | 1.5% |
| 2020 | 98,501 | $48,294 | 4.8% |
| 2019 | 103,474 | $45,475 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 102,426 | $43,457 | 0.4% |
| 2017 | 102,026 | $41,590 | 0.9% |
| 2016 | 103,007 | $39,901 | 0.7% |
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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Production occupations in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for production occupations in Colorado. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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