Grand Junction, CO Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Grand Junction, CO - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Grand Junction, CO moved from $47,250 in May 2024 to $48,510 in May 2025 (+2.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Grand Junction, CO sits -0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Registered Nurses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Grand Junction, CO
Registered Nurses publishes $95,990 here versus $97,550 nationally (-1.6%; 2,130metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $31,510 locally versus $31,200 nationally (+1.0%).
- Registered Nurses$95,990 in Grand Junction, CO sits 1.6% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (2,130 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$31,510 in Grand Junction, CO sits 1.0% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,450 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$35,630 in Grand Junction, CO sits 0.6% above the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,190 published local jobs).
Registered Nurses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Grand Junction, CO; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 24300 · Grand Junction, CO $61K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #166/528
- RPP-MID 95.5
- OCC-MID 286 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $349K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE -0.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Beaumont-Port Ar…
- BOOK-MOST 282 rows · May 2025
Read with Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX ($10 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 Grand Junction, CO
Employment scale inside Grand Junction, CO's top-pay list
Lawyers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Grand Junction, CO's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 260 jobs · $113,610
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 240 jobs · $127,940
- 3. Family Medicine Physicians 200 jobs · $186,060
- 4. Managers, All Other 170 jobs · $143,630
- 5. Software Developers 170 jobs · $123,990
- 6. Physician Assistants 150 jobs · $129,930
- 7. Financial Managers 140 jobs · $148,770
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 140 jobs · $120,710
- 9. Physicians, All Other 130 jobs · $348,710
- 10. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $147,170
- 11. Sales Managers 100 jobs · $155,440
- 12. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 90 jobs · $121,670
- 13. Computer and Information Systems Managers 70 jobs · $168,850
- 14. Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 70 jobs · $117,120
- 15. Computer Occupations, All Other 70 jobs · $112,400
- 16. Dentists, General 60 jobs · $161,200
- 17. Petroleum Engineers 50 jobs · $161,940
- 18. Veterinarians 50 jobs · $117,520
Occupations Tracked
286
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$61,230
employment-weighted, 282 complete rows
Top Salary
$348,710
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
95.5
5% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Grand Junction, CO
Lowest Paying Jobs in Grand Junction, CO
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $30,800 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $31,080 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $31,510 |
| Dishwashers | $33,730 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $33,980 |
| Food Batchmakers | $34,040 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $34,060 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,190 |
| Animal Caretakers | $34,270 |
| Recreation Workers | $34,350 |
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 ($61,230 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
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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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.