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Colorado Salary Calculator 2026

Convert hourly ↔ annual salary and benchmark your pay against Colorado-adjusted BLS medians for 20+ trade roles. Colorado is pre-selected; includes overtime.

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Hourly ↔ Annual Reference Table

Hourly RateAnnual (2,080 hrs)MonthlyWeekly
$15.00/hr$31,200$2,600$600
$20.00/hr$41,600$3,467$800
$25.00/hr$52,000$4,333$1,000
$30.00/hr$62,400$5,200$1,200
$35.00/hr$72,800$6,067$1,400
$40.00/hr$83,200$6,933$1,600
$45.00/hr$93,600$7,800$1,800
$50.00/hr$104,000$8,667$2,000
$60.00/hr$124,800$10,400$2,400
$75.00/hr$156,000$13,000$3,000
$100.00/hr$208,000$17,333$4,000
$125.00/hr$260,000$21,667$5,000

Salary Calculator FAQ

How do you convert hourly rate to annual salary?

Multiply your hourly rate by 2,080 (40 hours × 52 weeks) for a standard full-time annual salary. Example: $30/hr × 2,080 = $62,400/yr. For overtime weeks, use: (40 hrs × rate) + (OT hrs × rate × 1.5) × number of weeks.

How many working hours are in a year?

Standard full-time: 2,080 hours (40 × 52). Minus 10 federal holidays (80 hrs): 2,000 paid hours. Minus 2 weeks vacation (80 hrs): 1,920 hours actually worked. BLS uses 2,080 for hourly-to-annual conversions. Turnaround and shutdown workers can exceed 3,000 hours/yr with heavy overtime.

What is time-and-a-half overtime?

Under the FLSA, non-exempt employees must receive 1.5× their regular rate for all hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. Example: $30/hr base · regular week = $1,200 (40 hrs) · one 10-hr OT week = $1,200 + ($30 × 1.5 × 10) = $1,200 + $450 = $1,650. Double time (2×) is not federally required but common in petrochemical and union contracts.

Colorado Salaries

How Colorado salaries compare to the national market

Colorado trade wages run about 5% above the national median (BLS OEWS May 2025), and this calculator applies a 1.05 Colorado wage index to national medians. The Front Range does the work: Denver's transit, airport and high-rise pipeline and Boulder's lab and university construction pay above the state figure, while Colorado Springs and the Western Slope run below it. Colorado taxes income at a flat 4.4%, employees add a 0.44% FAMLI paid-leave premium in 2026, and no city takes a percentage wage tax.

Colorado: colorado salary calculator — Colorado wage index 1.05× national BLS median, Gross vs national ~5% above, State income tax Flat 4.40% (plus 0.44% FAMLI premium). Simplified outline of Colorado, stylised and not to scale.
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Colorado trade salaries at a glance (2026 BLS)

Colorado-adjusted BLS OEWS medians for common skilled trades (national median localised with the 1.05 Colorado wage index). Enter your own pay in the calculator above to benchmark against any role.

TradeColorado median / yrNational medianColorado / hr
Electrician$66,350$63,190$31.90
Plumber$66,990$63,800$32.21
HVAC Technician$64,060$61,010$30.80
Pipefitter$66,990$63,800$32.21
Ironworker$65,920$62,780$31.69
Carpenter$63,610$60,580$30.58

Trade pay by Colorado metro

Local BLS medians vs the Colorado state average.

MetroMedianvs state
Denver-Aurora$70,3301.06× state
Boulder$69,6701.05× state
Fort Collins$64,3600.97× state
Colorado Springs$61,7100.93× state
Does Colorado's wage premium survive its living costs?

Along the Front Range, mostly. Trade pay about 5% above the national median meets housing costs well above it in Denver and Boulder, so the net advantage is thinner than gross figures suggest, though the flat 4.4% tax is gentler than the progressive schedules of coastal high-wage states. Resort-county work often adds travel and housing stipends to compensate.

What construction is driving Colorado trade demand?

Denver's pipeline is broad: airport expansion at DIA, RTD transit maintenance, water infrastructure like Gross Reservoir, downtown adaptive reuse, plus semiconductor-adjacent work in Colorado Springs and steady data-center growth. Add wildfire rebuilds and mountain-resort projects, and journeyman electricians and plumbers rarely idle between jobs.

How accurate is the Colorado benchmark in this calculator?

The calculator applies a Colorado wage index (1.05×) to national BLS OEWS medians, a reference estimate, not a quote. Front Range rates run above the state figure while the Western Slope and southern counties run below it. For exact BLS state and metro medians with percentiles, use the Colorado salary guide.

What is the median trade salary in Colorado?

It varies by role: the Colorado electrician median is about $66,350, plumbers $66,990, HVAC technicians $64,060, and pipefitters $66,990 (BLS OEWS May 2025, Colorado-adjusted). Enter your own pay in the calculator to see your percentile against any role.

How is the Colorado wage index applied?

National BLS OEWS medians are multiplied by a 1.05 Colorado factor to localise them, reflecting that Colorado gross pay runs about 5% above the national average. Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year. It is a reference estimate, not an employer offer.

Which Colorado metros pay trades the most?

Denver-Aurora leads at about 6% above the state median on airport, transit and high-rise work, with Boulder essentially at the same level on lab and university projects. Fort Collins tracks a few points below the state figure, Colorado Springs about 7% below it, and mountain-resort towns pay scale plus premiums to attract crews.

Do Colorado trade wages include overtime?

The benchmark medians are base pay. Colorado is stricter than federal law: overtime is due after 40 hours a week, after 12 hours in a day, or after 12 consecutive hours, whichever pays more. This calculator lets you add overtime hours at 1.5x (or 2x) to model total annual pay.

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Sources & methodology

Salary figures are U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS (May 2025) national medians localised with a 1.05 Colorado wage index; hourly rates assume 2,080 paid hours a year. Primary sources: BLS OEWS · Colorado Department of Revenue · Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Reviewed 2026-07-21 by the GlobalCybers Data Desk · reference estimates, not an offer of pay. Full methodology →

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