First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,448
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$18,812
22.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,570
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
$83,260
Kept after tax
$64,448
Worth in national money
$63,570
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Colorado's middle earner gets $83,260, putting the state 15 of 51 — about 4.26% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 127 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 $83,260, tax leaves $64,448, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,570 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $88,590, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers, Colorado sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $83,260, ranking 15 of 51 and running about 4.26% 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.
- First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers ranks 127 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 first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers — median $83,260 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $64,448 retained, $63,570 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $88,590 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,260 |
| Top tenth earn over | $127,250 |
| This salary | $83,260 |
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 | $64,448 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,403 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,793 |
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 | $79,060 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,002 |
| 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 $83,260. The published range is $57,300 up to $127,250, 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 $64,448, worked from $83,260. 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 127 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Colorado, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $63,570, the adjusted value of that $83,260 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 127 of 491 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers in Colorado the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $57,300 to $127,250. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Colorado take-home of $64,448, on $83,260 for work ranking 127 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 127 of 491 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Colorado, so $63,570 — the adjusted value of that $83,260 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 127 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $88,590, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $57,300, the highest tenth $127,250, 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 $63,570 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 $64,448.
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 $88,590. 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 ($57,300) and the ninetieth ($127,250) 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 $63,570 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 $64,448 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.