Greeley, CO Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Greeley, CO - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- 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%).
- Cashiers$35,760 in Greeley, CO sits 8.8% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,530 published local jobs).
- 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).
- Retail Salespersons$36,670 in Greeley, CO sits 3.6% above the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (2,650 published local jobs).
- 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
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. Software Developers 560 jobs · $129,480
- 2. Managers, All Other 510 jobs · $159,890
- 3. Petroleum Engineers 300 jobs · $132,240
- 4. Sales Managers 280 jobs · $176,390
- 5. Financial Managers 270 jobs · $172,530
- 6. Lawyers 260 jobs · $132,990
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 180 jobs · $174,850
- 8. Industrial Production Managers 170 jobs · $139,990
- 9. Pharmacists 150 jobs · $148,850
- 10. Physician Assistants 140 jobs · $134,550
- 11. Nurse Practitioners 140 jobs · $130,950
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 120 jobs · $170,640
- 13. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $190,410
- 14. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $161,390
- 15. Dentists, General 90 jobs · $154,940
- 16. Facilities Managers 90 jobs · $131,190
- 17. Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 60 jobs · $137,840
- 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
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
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $31,720 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $33,030 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $33,080 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $33,870 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,250 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $34,760 |
| Dishwashers | $35,240 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $35,290 |
| Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals | $35,360 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $35,370 |
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 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 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.