Fort Collins-Loveland, CO Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO moved from $53,620 in May 2024 to $55,310 in May 2025 (+3.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Fort Collins-Loveland, CO sits +0.1 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $47,360 here versus $35,230 nationally (+34.4%; 2,740metro-area jobs). Next is Office Clerks, General at $55,960 locally versus $45,010 nationally (+24.3%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$47,360 in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO sits 34.4% above the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,740 published local jobs).
- Office Clerks, General$55,960 in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO sits 24.3% above the national Office Clerks, General median of $45,010 (2,030 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$34,850 in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO sits 11.7% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (5,770 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$35,980 in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO sits 9.4% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (3,670 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Fort Collins-Loveland, CO; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 22660 · Fort Collins-Loveland, CO $69K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #57/528
- RPP-MID 101.1
- OCC-MOST 422 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $298K
- EMP-MIX Managers, Al…
- TREND-INLINE +0.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Fairbanks-Colleg…
- BOOK-FULL 378 rows · May 2025
Read with Fairbanks-College, AK (+$21 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
Employment scale inside Fort Collins-Loveland, CO's top-pay list
Managers, All Other and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Fort Collins-Loveland, CO's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Managers, All Other 560 jobs · $166,610
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 490 jobs · $195,190
- 3. Computer Hardware Engineers 490 jobs · $168,990
- 4. Financial Managers 450 jobs · $175,890
- 5. Sales Managers 400 jobs · $198,550
- 6. Architectural and Engineering Managers 330 jobs · $175,380
- 7. Marketing Managers 250 jobs · $189,690
- 8. Natural Sciences Managers 250 jobs · $152,730
- 9. Human Resources Managers 170 jobs · $156,820
- 10. Family Medicine Physicians 150 jobs · $231,750
- 11. Industrial Production Managers 130 jobs · $136,570
- 12. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 120 jobs · $144,910
- 13. Physicians, All Other 110 jobs · $298,320
- 14. Administrative Services Managers 100 jobs · $146,600
- 15. Optometrists 80 jobs · $163,240
- 16. Sales Engineers 80 jobs · $151,450
- 17. Purchasing Managers 70 jobs · $171,280
- 18. Economics Teachers, Postsecondary 70 jobs · $138,460
Occupations Tracked
422
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$68,793
employment-weighted, 378 complete rows
Top Salary
$298,320
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
101.1
1% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physicians, All Other | $298,320 |
| 2 | Family Medicine Physicians | $231,750 |
| 3 | Sales Managers | $198,550 |
| 4 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $195,190 |
| 5 | Marketing Managers | $189,690 |
| 6 | Dentists, General | $180,210 |
| 7 | Financial Managers | $175,890 |
| 8 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $175,380 |
| 9 | Purchasing Managers | $171,280 |
| 10 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $168,990 |
| 11 | Managers, All Other | $166,610 |
| 12 | Optometrists | $163,240 |
| 13 | Human Resources Managers | $156,820 |
| 14 | Natural Sciences Managers | $152,730 |
| 15 | Sales Engineers | $151,450 |
| 16 | Pharmacists | $149,410 |
| 17 | Administrative Services Managers | $146,600 |
| 18 | Commercial Pilots | $145,210 |
| 19 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $144,910 |
| 20 | Fundraising Managers | $143,780 |
| 21 | Psychologists, All Other | $139,530 |
| 22 | Chemical Engineers | $139,220 |
| 23 | Economics Teachers, Postsecondary | $138,460 |
| 24 | Industrial Production Managers | $136,570 |
| 25 | Public Relations Managers | $134,390 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $30,800 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $32,630 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $33,920 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $34,580 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $34,730 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $34,850 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,890 |
| Floral Designers | $35,030 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $35,050 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $35,230 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in CO
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside CO. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($68,793 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Fort Collins-Loveland, CO wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO at $298,320/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $68,793 adjusts to about $68,026 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 101.1. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for CO before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.