Pest Control Workers in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,838
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$8,812
18.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,295
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
$48,650
Kept after tax
$39,838
Worth in national money
$39,295
State rank
6
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Colorado is one of the better-paying states for pest control workers. The middle earner takes $48,650, which ranks 6 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 7.51% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 367 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $48,650, tax leaves $39,838, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,295 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $53,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- Colorado ranks 6 of 50 states publishing a median for pest control workers, at $48,650 — about 7.51% 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.
- Pest control workers ranks 367 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.
- Because Colorado sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for pest control workers — median $48,650 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,838 retained, $39,295 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $53,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Pest Control Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,230 |
| This salary | $48,650 |
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 | $39,838 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,270 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,175 |
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 | $46,868 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,840 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of pest control workers in Colorado earn under $48,650 and half over. The published range runs $38,610 at the tenth percentile to $71,230 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,838 take-home in Colorado comes from $48,650. 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 367 of 491.
- Two cautions on $39,295, the adjusted value of that $48,650 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 367 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for pest control workers in Colorado, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,610 to $71,230; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $39,838, from $48,650, 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 367 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 50 for it.
- This $39,295 adjusted figure, worked from $48,650, 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 367 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 367 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,770, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $38,610 and the top tenth $71,230, 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 $39,295 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 $39,838 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 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 $53,770. 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 ($38,610 to $71,230) 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 $39,295 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 $39,838 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.