Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,271
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$10,849
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,640
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
$57,120
Kept after tax
$46,271
Worth in national money
$45,640
State rank
10
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Colorado's middle earner gets $57,120, putting the state 10 of 47 — about 8.72% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 300 among 491 occupations Colorado publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $57,120 the take-home is $46,271, which is worth about $45,640 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $58,680, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For jewelers and precious stone and metal workers, Colorado sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $57,120, ranking 10 of 47 and running about 8.72% 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.
- Position 300 of 491 in Colorado places jewelers and precious stone and metal workers 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.
- Colorado's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for jewelers and precious stone and metal workers on its $57,120 median: $46,271 retained after tax becomes $45,640 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $58,680 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,020 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,420 |
| This salary | $57,120 |
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 | $46,271 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,076 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,833 |
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 | $54,874 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,636 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $57,120 as a midpoint for Colorado, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,020 and the ninetieth is $83,420 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $46,271 take-home in Colorado comes from $57,120. 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 300 of 491.
- Two cautions on $45,640, the adjusted value of that $57,120 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 300 of 491 locally.
- The Colorado median of $57,120 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,020 to $83,420. 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 $46,271, from $57,120, 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 300 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 47 for it.
- This $45,640 adjusted figure, worked from $57,120, 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 300 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 300 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $37,020 and the top tenth $83,420 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $45,640 rather than its face figure.
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 $46,271.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,020) and the ninetieth ($83,420) 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 $45,640 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 $46,271 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.