Denver County · Colorado
Denver, CO jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Denver, CO earn a median of $58,097 a year, 30% above the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 4.6% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 21.9% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $58,097#5 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 4.6%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 74.3%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 421,609Civilian employed, age 16+
What Denver does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance21.9%
- Professional, scientific & management20.6%
- Finance, insurance & real estate8.7%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food8.6%
- Retail trade8.4%
- Construction6.5%
- Manufacturing5.8%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities5.1%
- Other services, except public administration4.6%
- Public administration3.5%
- Information3.3%
- Wholesale trade2.1%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.9%
Related data for Denver
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.