Greeley, CO Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Greeley, CO - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Greeley, CO moved from $52,110 in May 2024 to $55,070 in May 2025 (+5.7%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Greeley, CO sits +2.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Cashiers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Greeley, CO

Cashiers publishes $35,760 here versus $32,880 nationally (+8.8%; 2,530metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $33,030 locally versus $31,200 nationally (+5.9%).

  1. Cashiers$35,760 in Greeley, CO sits 8.8% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,530 published local jobs).
  2. Fast Food and Counter Workers$33,030 in Greeley, CO sits 5.9% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (3,670 published local jobs).
  3. Retail Salespersons$36,670 in Greeley, CO sits 3.6% above the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,650 published local jobs).
  4. Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$59,450 in Greeley, CO sits 1.4% above the national Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers median of $58,640 (2,700 published local jobs).

Cashiers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Greeley, CO; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 24540 · Greeley, CO $66K mean

MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-AHEAD · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL

  • MEAN-HIGH #86/528
  • RPP-MID 100.2
  • OCC-MID 364 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $211K
  • EMP-MIX Software Dev…
  • TREND-AHEAD +2.6 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Springfield, MA
  • BOOK-FULL 357 rows · May 2025

Read with Springfield, MA (+$31 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 Greeley, CO

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KGreeley, CO · this MSA: $66KGreeley, CO · this MSA$66KSpringfield, MA · near: $66KSpringfield, MA · near$66KRochester, NY · near: $66KRochester, NY · near$66KNorthwest Colorado n… · near: $66KNorthwest Colorado n… · near$66KEastern Washington n… · near: $66KEastern Washington n… · near$66KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Greeley, CO · this MSA $66K
Springfield, MA · near $66K
Rochester, NY · near $66K
Northwest Colorado n… · near $66K
Eastern Washington n… · near $66K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Greeley, CO's top-pay list

Software Developers and Managers, All Other lead published employment inside Greeley, CO's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Software Developers 560 jobs · $129,480
  2. 2. Managers, All Other 510 jobs · $159,890
  3. 3. Petroleum Engineers 300 jobs · $132,240
  4. 4. Sales Managers 280 jobs · $176,390
  5. 5. Financial Managers 270 jobs · $172,530
  6. 6. Lawyers 260 jobs · $132,990
  7. 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 180 jobs · $174,850
  8. 8. Industrial Production Managers 170 jobs · $139,990
  9. 9. Pharmacists 150 jobs · $148,850
  10. 10. Physician Assistants 140 jobs · $134,550
  11. 11. Nurse Practitioners 140 jobs · $130,950
  12. 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 120 jobs · $170,640
  13. 13. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $190,410
  14. 14. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $161,390
  15. 15. Dentists, General 90 jobs · $154,940
  16. 16. Facilities Managers 90 jobs · $131,190
  17. 17. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 60 jobs · $137,840
  18. 18. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 60 jobs · $134,350

Occupations Tracked

364

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$66,187

employment-weighted, 357 complete rows

Top Salary

$210,700

Chief Executives

Cost of Living

100.2

0% above US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $66,187 by the metro RPP gives $66,071 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Greeley, CO

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Chief Executives $210,700
2 Marketing Managers $190,410
3 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates $190,230
4 Sales Managers $176,390
5 Computer and Information Systems Managers $174,850
6 Financial Managers $172,530
7 Architectural and Engineering Managers $170,640
8 Purchasing Managers $162,710
9 Human Resources Managers $161,390
10 Public Relations Managers $159,900
11 Managers, All Other $159,890
12 Dentists, General $154,940
13 Administrative Services Managers $151,750
14 Pharmacists $148,850
15 Aerospace Engineers $140,780
16 Industrial Production Managers $139,990
17 Sales Engineers $138,420
18 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products $137,840
19 Physician Assistants $134,550
20 Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers $134,350
21 Lawyers $132,990
22 Petroleum Engineers $132,240
23 Facilities Managers $131,190
24 Nurse Practitioners $130,950
25 Software Developers $129,480

Lowest Paying Jobs in Greeley, CO

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 ($66,187 here) and summed published employment.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Greeley, CO?
Across the 357 occupation rows for Greeley, CO with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $66,187/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 364 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $154,718, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Greeley, CO?
Chief Executives holds the highest published median in Greeley, CO at $210,700/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Marketing Managers at $190,410/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Greeley, CO?
Greeley, CO has a Regional Price Parity of 100.2, meaning prices are 0% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $66,187 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $66,071.
Where does BLS salary data for Greeley, CO come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area, not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

What to do with this data

How to use Greeley, CO wage figures in a real decision

  • Chief Executives leads published medians in Greeley, CO at $210,700/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
  • The employment-weighted published-row mean of $66,187 adjusts to about $66,071 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 100.2. 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.

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