Information and Record Clerks, All Other in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,838
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$9,762
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,254
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
$52,600
Kept after tax
$42,838
Worth in national money
$42,254
State rank
14
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Colorado pays this job a middle wage of $52,600, ranking 14 of 50 states and sitting about 6.26% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 326 among 491 occupations Colorado publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $52,600, tax leaves $42,838, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $42,254 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $56,540, since top earners drag the number up.
- Colorado's median for information and record clerks, all other is $52,600, about 6.26% above the national figure and 14 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 326 of 491 in Colorado places information and record clerks, all other in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Colorado sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for information and record clerks, all other — median $52,600 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $42,838 retained, $42,254 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $56,540 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Information and Record Clerks, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,590 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,020 |
| This salary | $52,600 |
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 | $42,838 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,444 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,482 |
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 | $50,601 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,211 |
| 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 $52,600. The published range is $40,590 up to $75,020, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $42,838 take-home in Colorado comes from $52,600. 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 326 of 491.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $42,254 uses one figure for the whole of Colorado. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 326.
- Reported values are medians; for information and record clerks, all other in Colorado the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $40,590 to $75,020. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $42,838, from $52,600, 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 326 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $42,254, worked from $52,600, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Colorado address, on work sitting at 326 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 $56,540 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 — $40,590 at the tenth percentile, $75,020 at the ninetieth.
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 $42,254 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, $42,838 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $56,540. 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 ($40,590 to $75,020) 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 $42,254 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 $42,838 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.