What is the top job in Colorado? It’s also one of the lowest-paying.
What is the most common job in Colorado? And which jobs are paying the most (and least) here?
It turns out the top job in Colorado is also among one of the lowest-paid jobs.
The latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics allows anyone to dig into the numbers to see everything from the number of jobs and how much they pay, to how they are trending and what the top fields are.
Here’s how some of those comparisons shake out:
Most common jobs in Colorado
- Fast food and counter workers, 77,500 jobs
- Retail salespersons, 75,200
- Stockers and order fillers, 55,430
- Cashiers, 55,270
- Registered nurses, 53,480
- Customer service representatives, 46,910
- Business operations specialists, 46,620
- Software developers, 45,270
- General and operations managers, 44,710
- Waiters and waitresses, 44,230
In the U.S., the top job is home health and personal care aides. In Colorado, that job ranks just out of the top 10 at No. 11.
After that, Colorado looks a lot like the national picture, where retail salespersons is the No. 2 most common job, followed by fast food and counter workers.
Least common jobs in Colorado
Colorado is estimated to have about 30 of these jobs, making them the least common in the state:
- Underground mining machine operators
- Agricultural engineers
- Transportation workers, all other
- Textile, apparel and furnishings workers
- Helpers – roofers
- Host and winch operators
- Roof bolters – mining
The most common occupations
The specific jobs listed above are the most common, but these are the most common occupations, according to the BLS.
- Office and administrative support
- Sales and related
- Food preparation and serving related
- Business and financial operations
- Transportation and material moving
- Management
- Health care practitioners and technical
- Education instruction and library
- Construction and extraction
- Computer and mathematical
Highest-paying jobs in Colorado
- Neurologists, $409,690 annually on average
- Orthopedic surgeons (except pediatric), $379,540
- Obstetricians and gynecologists, $353,190
- Surgeons, $333,990
- Radiologists, $333,420
- Emergency medicine physicians, $328,850
- Physicians, all other, $323,020
- Opthamologists, except pediatric, $307,000
- General internal medicine physicians, $275,870
- Chief executives, $259,550
Lowest-paying jobs in Colorado
- Taxi drivers, $30,810 annually on average
- Fast food cooks, $33,250
- Hosts and hostesses at restaurants, lounges and coffee shops, $33,420
- Locker room, coatroom and dressing room attendants, $33,780
- Pressers of textiles, garments and related materials, $33,780
- Graders and sorters of agricultural products, $33,800
- Library assistants, $34,170
- School bus monitors, $34,260
- Fast food and counter workers, $34,260
- Laundry and dry cleaning workers, $34,630
If you want to see where your job ranks in popularity or pay, you can check out this sortable chart for Colorado.
