Colorado · BLS May 2025
Also called office manager. SOC 43-1011.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 26,100 first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers working in Colorado. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal, state and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Colorado
$76,600A year, or $36.83 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $49,990 | $24.03 |
| 25th percentile | $61,850 | $29.74 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $76,600 | $36.83 |
| 75th percentile | $95,590 | $45.96 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $112,250 | $53.97 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $79,750 | $38.34 |
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A $76,600 salary in Colorado, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Colorado sit at 103.1 against a national average of 100, so $76,600 earned here buys what $74,331 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for office and administrative support supervisors in Colorado is $76,600 a year, or $36.83 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $76,600, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $60,056 a year, or roughly $5,005 a month.
That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 21.6%.
Colorado takes $2,662 of it in state income tax.
Yes. The median in Colorado is 10.2% above the national median of $69,500.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Colorado sit at 103.1 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.8 times the median household income of $95,470. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Colorado run at 103.1 against a national average of 100, with rents at 127.4, so $76,600 here buys about what $74,331 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $112,250 a year or more, against $49,990 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Colorado someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 26,100 of these jobs in Colorado for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 2% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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