New Accounts Clerks in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,005
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$8,865
18.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,460
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
$48,870
Kept after tax
$40,005
Worth in national money
$39,460
State rank
14
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Colorado is one of the better-paying states for new accounts clerks. The middle earner takes $48,870, which ranks 14 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 2.52% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. New accounts clerks ranks 364 among 491 occupations Colorado publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $48,870, tax leaves $40,005, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,460 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $52,060, since top earners drag the number up.
- Colorado ranks 14 of 45 states publishing a median for new accounts clerks, at $48,870 — about 2.52% 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 364 of 491 in Colorado places new accounts clerks 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 new accounts clerks — median $48,870 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $40,005 retained, $39,460 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $52,060 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: New Accounts Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,590 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,080 |
| This salary | $48,870 |
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 | $40,005 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,447 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,192 |
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 | $47,075 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,861 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $48,870 as a midpoint for Colorado, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $43,590 and the ninetieth is $63,080 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Colorado's $40,005, worked from $48,870. 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 364 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Colorado, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,460, the adjusted value of that $48,870 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 364 of 491 in the state.
- The Colorado median of $48,870 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $43,590 to $63,080. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Colorado take-home of $40,005, on $48,870 for work ranking 364 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 364 of 491 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Colorado, so $39,460 — the adjusted value of that $48,870 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 364 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 $52,060 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $43,590 and the top tenth $63,080, so most people doing this work in Colorado sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $39,460 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 $40,005 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 $52,060. 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 ($43,590 to $63,080) 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 $39,460 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 $40,005 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.