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.
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.
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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How to use Grand Junction, CO wage figures in a real decision
- Physicians, All Other leads published medians in Grand Junction, CO at $348,710/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Physicians, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $61,230 adjusts to about $64,131 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.5. 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.