Helpers--Electricians in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,739
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$10,681
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,116
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
$56,420
Kept after tax
$45,739
Worth in national money
$45,116
State rank
3
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Colorado pays helpers--electricians a middle wage of $56,420, ranking 3 of 47 states and sitting about 32.22% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 306 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $56,420 the take-home is $45,739, which is worth about $45,116 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $53,700, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Colorado's median for helpers--electricians is $56,420, about 32.22% above the national figure and 3 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Helpers--electricians ranks 306 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.
- Colorado's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for helpers--electricians on its $56,420 median: $45,739 retained after tax becomes $45,116 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $53,700 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Helpers--Electricians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,680 |
| This salary | $56,420 |
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 | $45,739 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,513 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,779 |
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 | $54,212 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,570 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $56,420 as a midpoint for Colorado, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,550 and the ninetieth is $60,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $45,739 take-home in Colorado comes from $56,420. 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 306 of 491.
- Two cautions on $45,116, the adjusted value of that $56,420 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 306 of 491 locally.
- The Colorado median of $56,420 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,550 to $60,680. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $45,739, from $56,420, 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 306 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 47 for it.
- This $45,116 adjusted figure, worked from $56,420, 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 306 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 306 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 $53,700 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,550 at the tenth percentile, $60,680 at the ninetieth.
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 $45,116 rather than its face figure.
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 $45,739 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 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 $53,700. 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 ($36,550 to $60,680) 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 $45,116 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 $45,739 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.