Electricians in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,152
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$12,078
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,468
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
$62,230
Kept after tax
$50,152
Worth in national money
$49,468
State rank
33
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Colorado pays electricians around $62,230 at the midpoint, 33 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 255 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $62,230, tax leaves $50,152, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $49,468 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $66,310, since top earners drag the number up.
- For electricians the Colorado median is $62,230, ranking 33 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Electricians ranks 255 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.
- Because Colorado sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for electricians — median $62,230 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,152 retained, $49,468 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $66,310 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Electricians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $94,160 |
| This salary | $62,230 |
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 | $50,152 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,182 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,230 |
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 | $59,704 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,116 |
| 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 electricians in Colorado earn under $62,230 and half over. The published range runs $45,520 at the tenth percentile to $94,160 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Colorado the take-home figure of $50,152, from $62,230, 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 255 of 491 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $49,468, the adjusted value of that $62,230 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 255 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for electricians in Colorado, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $45,520 to $94,160; 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.
- Take-home for Colorado is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,152 from $62,230. 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 255 of 491 locally.
- This $49,468 adjusted figure, worked from $62,230, 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 255 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 255 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 $66,310 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 $45,520, the highest tenth $94,160, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Colorado run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $49,468 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Colorado adds its own income tax on top — which is why $50,152 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $66,310. 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 ($45,520) and the ninetieth ($94,160) 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 $49,468 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 $50,152 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.