Colorado · NAICS 11 · Annual, 2025

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Colorado

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 11 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (NAICS 11) employed about 17,400 people in Colorado across roughly 1,762 establishments, with average annual pay of $51,330.

Employment in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Colorado declined 13.7% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 39.0% below the all-industries average in Colorado. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Colorado are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 17,400Employment, 2025
  • 1,762Establishments
  • $51,330Avg. annual pay
  • 0.6%Share of Colorado jobs
  • 0.76Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Colorado, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 14,600 to 17,400.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 14,600; 2005 15,000; 2006 14,900; 2007 14,600; 2008 14,100; 2009 13,800; 2010 13,700; 2011 14,000; 2012 14,500; 2013 14,400; 2014 15,000; 2015 15,700; 2016 16,500; 2017 17,600; 2018 18,200; 2019 19,800; 2020 20,100; 2021 20,200; 2022 19,100; 2023 18,200; 2024 17,600; 2025 17,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202517,3581,762$51,327 1.4%pub.
202417,6051,815$49,313 3.5%pub.
202318,2461,885$47,881 4.7%pub.
202219,1351,876$46,068 5.1%pub.
202120,1531,846$43,675 0.2%est. · 1.00
202020,1071,807$42,010 1.6%est. · 1.00
201919,7941,736$40,411 8.8%est. · 1.00
201818,1951,704$38,268 3.1%est. · 1.00
201717,6421,654$36,440 6.8%est. · 1.00
201616,5181,598$34,988 5.5%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 5 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of agriculture, forestry, fishing and huntingLQSource
111Crop Production7,47143.0%0.76pub.
112Animal Production and Aquaculture7,06540.7%1.41pub.
113Forestry and Logging1110.6%0.12est. · 0.92
114Fishing, Hunting and Trapping190.1%0.13est. · 0.91
115Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry2,69315.5%0.38pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth

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