Property Appraisers and Assessors in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,100
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$16,050
21.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,294
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
$75,150
Kept after tax
$59,100
Worth in national money
$58,294
State rank
16
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Colorado's middle earner gets $75,150, putting the state 16 of 50 — about 10.58% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 177 among 491 occupations Colorado publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $75,150, tax leaves $59,100, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $58,294 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $84,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- For property appraisers and assessors, Colorado sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $75,150, ranking 16 of 50 and running about 10.58% 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 177 of 491 in Colorado places property appraisers and assessors 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 property appraisers and assessors — median $75,150 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $59,100 retained, $58,294 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $84,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Property Appraisers and Assessors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,730 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $130,890 |
| This salary | $75,150 |
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 | $59,100 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,698 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,197 |
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 | $71,457 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,179 |
| 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 $75,150. The published range is $49,730 up to $130,890, 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 $59,100, worked from $75,150. 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 177 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Colorado, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $58,294, the adjusted value of that $75,150 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 177 of 491 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for property appraisers and assessors in Colorado the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,730 to $130,890. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Colorado take-home of $59,100, on $75,150 for work ranking 177 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 177 of 491 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Colorado, so $58,294 — the adjusted value of that $75,150 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 177 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 $84,530 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,730 and the top tenth $130,890 — 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 $58,294 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 $59,100 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $84,530. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($49,730) and the ninetieth ($130,890) 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 $58,294 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 $59,100 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.