Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,481
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$12,499
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,779
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
$63,980
Kept after tax
$51,481
Worth in national money
$50,779
State rank
5
of 51 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 $63,980, ranking 5 of 51 states and sitting about 7.26% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 232 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 $63,980, tax leaves $51,481, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $50,779 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $67,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- Colorado's median for production, planning, and expediting clerks is $63,980, about 7.26% above the national figure and 5 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Production, planning, and expediting clerks ranks 232 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 production, planning, and expediting clerks — median $63,980 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $51,481 retained, $50,779 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $67,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,530 |
| This salary | $63,980 |
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 | $51,481 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,588 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,366 |
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 | $61,358 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,281 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,980 as a midpoint for Colorado, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,720 and the ninetieth is $91,530 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $51,481 take-home in Colorado comes from $63,980. 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 232 of 491.
- Two cautions on $50,779, the adjusted value of that $63,980 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 232 of 491 locally.
- The Colorado median of $63,980 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,720 to $91,530. 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 $51,481, from $63,980, 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 232 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 51 for it.
- This $50,779 adjusted figure, worked from $63,980, 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 232 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 232 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $67,530, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $46,720 and the top tenth $91,530, so most people doing this work in Colorado sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $50,779 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, $51,481 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $67,530. 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 ($46,720 to $91,530) 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 $50,779 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 $51,481 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.