Mechanical Door Repairers in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,327
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$12,133
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,641
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
$62,460
Kept after tax
$50,327
Worth in national money
$49,641
State rank
5
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Colorado is one of the better-paying states for mechanical door repairers. The middle earner takes $62,460, which ranks 5 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 12.1% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Mechanical door repairers ranks 251 among 491 occupations Colorado publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $62,460, tax leaves $50,327, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $49,641 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $62,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- Colorado ranks 5 of 45 states publishing a median for mechanical door repairers, at $62,460 — about 12.1% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 251 of 491 in Colorado places mechanical door repairers 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 mechanical door repairers — median $62,460 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,327 retained, $49,641 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $62,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Mechanical Door Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,460 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,670 |
| This salary | $62,460 |
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 | $50,327 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,367 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,248 |
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 | $59,921 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,138 |
| 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 $62,460. The published range is $42,760 up to $78,670, 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 $50,327, worked from $62,460. 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 251 of 491.
- Two cautions on $49,641, the adjusted value of that $62,460 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 251 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for mechanical door repairers in Colorado the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,760 to $78,670. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Colorado take-home of $50,327, on $62,460 for work ranking 251 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 251 of 491 in the state.
- This $49,641 adjusted figure, worked from $62,460, 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 251 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 251 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $42,760 at the tenth percentile, $78,670 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 $49,641 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 $50,327 of this wage survives to your account.
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 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($42,760 to $78,670) 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 $49,641 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 $50,327 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.