Billing and Posting Clerks in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,891
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$9,779
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,307
Colorado costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Colorado — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$52,670
Kept after tax
$42,891
Worth in national money
$42,307
State rank
8
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Colorado pays billing and posting clerks a middle wage of $52,670, ranking 8 of 51 states and sitting about 8.6% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 491 occupations Colorado reports figures for, this is number 323.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $52,670, tax leaves $42,891, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $42,307 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $54,400, since top earners drag the number up.
- Colorado's median for billing and posting clerks is $52,670, about 8.6% above the national figure and 8 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In Colorado's occupational distribution, billing and posting clerks sits at 323 of 491 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Colorado sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for billing and posting clerks — median $52,670 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $42,891 retained, $42,307 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $54,400 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Billing and Posting Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,130 |
| This salary | $52,670 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Colorado | $42,891 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,500 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,487 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $50,667 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,218 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of billing and posting clerks in Colorado earn under $52,670 and half over. The published range runs $41,360 at the tenth percentile to $65,130 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $42,891 take-home in Colorado comes from $52,670. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 323 of 491.
- Two cautions on $42,307, the adjusted value of that $52,670 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Colorado. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 323 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for billing and posting clerks in Colorado, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,360 to $65,130; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $42,891, from $52,670, assumes a single Colorado filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 323 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 51 for it.
- This $42,307 adjusted figure, worked from $52,670, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 323 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 323 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $54,400, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $41,360 at the bottom tenth to $65,130 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Colorado costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $42,307 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Colorado then takes its own share, leaving $42,891.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Colorado is $54,400. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($41,360 to $65,130) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Colorado rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Colorado's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $42,307 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $42,891 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Colorado income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.