Education Administrators, All Other in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,184
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$26,936
25.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,091
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
$107,120
Kept after tax
$80,184
Worth in national money
$79,091
State rank
10
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Colorado is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $107,120, which ranks 10 of 49 states with published figures. That is about 12.52% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Colorado. It ranks 70 out of 491 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $107,120, tax leaves $80,184, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $79,091 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $113,930, since top earners drag the number up.
- Colorado ranks 10 of 49 states publishing a median for education administrators, all other, at $107,120 — about 12.52% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Within Colorado, education administrators, all other ranks 70 of 491 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Because Colorado sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for education administrators, all other — median $107,120 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $80,184 retained, $79,091 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $113,930 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Education Administrators, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $107,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $170,900 |
| This salary | $107,120 |
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 | $80,184 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $84,189 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,545 |
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 | $101,427 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,423 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Colorado earn less than $107,120. The published range is $59,330 up to $170,900, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Colorado the take-home figure of $80,184, from $107,120, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 70 of 491 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $79,091, the adjusted value of that $107,120 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 70 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for education administrators, all other in Colorado the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $59,330 to $170,900. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Colorado is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $80,184 from $107,120. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 70 of 491 locally.
- This $79,091 adjusted figure, worked from $107,120, 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 70 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 70 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 $113,930, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $59,330, the highest tenth $170,900, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $79,091 of national purchasing power.
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 $80,184.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $113,930. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($59,330) and the ninetieth ($170,900) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $79,091 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 $80,184 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.