Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,565
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$12,525
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,862
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
$64,090
Kept after tax
$51,565
Worth in national money
$50,862
State rank
5
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Colorado's middle earner gets $64,090, putting the state 5 of 50 — about 25.94% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 230 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Colorado costs about what the country costs, so from $64,090, take-home of $51,565 is worth roughly $50,862 in national money. The average comes to $73,080, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For educational instruction and library workers, all other, Colorado sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $64,090, ranking 5 of 50 and running about 25.94% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Educational instruction and library workers, all other ranks 230 of 491 occupations in Colorado by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Price parity in Colorado is near the national base, so for educational instruction and library workers, all other, whose median is $64,090, the adjusted figure of $50,862 differs little from $51,565 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $73,080 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,090 |
| Top tenth earn over | $114,140 |
| This salary | $64,090 |
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 | $51,565 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,676 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,375 |
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 | $61,462 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,291 |
| 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 $64,090. The published range is $45,650 up to $114,140, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Colorado's $51,565, worked from $64,090. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 230 of 491.
- Two cautions on $50,862, the adjusted value of that $64,090 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 230 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for educational instruction and library workers, all other in Colorado the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,650 to $114,140. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Colorado take-home of $51,565, on $64,090 for work ranking 230 of 491 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 230 of 491 in the state.
- This $50,862 adjusted figure, worked from $64,090, 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 230 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 230 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $73,080 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $45,650, the highest tenth $114,140, 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 $50,862 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Colorado's own levy, $51,565 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $73,080. 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 ($45,650) and the ninetieth ($114,140) 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 $50,862 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 $51,565 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.