Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,947
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$8,213
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,430
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
$46,160
Kept after tax
$37,947
Worth in national money
$37,430
State rank
26
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Colorado pays this job around $46,160 at the midpoint, 26 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 491 occupations Colorado publishes, this job lands at 407. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $46,160, tax leaves $37,947, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $37,430 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $47,660, since top earners drag the number up.
- For weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping the Colorado median is $46,160, ranking 26 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Colorado, this work ranks 407 of 491 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Colorado sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping — median $46,160 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $37,947 retained, $37,430 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $47,660 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,270 |
| This salary | $46,160 |
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 | $37,947 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,270 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,982 |
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 | $44,514 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,606 |
| 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 weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Colorado earn under $46,160 and half over. The published range runs $36,090 at the tenth percentile to $59,270 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $37,947 take-home in Colorado comes from $46,160. 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 407 of 491.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $37,430 uses one figure for the whole of Colorado. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 407.
- Figures are distribution medians for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Colorado, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,090 to $59,270; 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 $37,947, from $46,160, 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 407 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $37,430, worked from $46,160, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Colorado address, on work sitting at 407 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 $47,660, 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 $36,090 and the top tenth $59,270, 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 $37,430 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Colorado then takes its own share, leaving $37,947.
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 49 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 $47,660. 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 ($36,090 to $59,270) 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 $37,430 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 $37,947 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.