Colorado · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Colorado

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 146,800 people in Colorado across roughly 5,647 establishments, with average annual pay of $94,220.

Employment in Manufacturing in Colorado declined 5.3% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Colorado than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.63). 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.

  • 146,800Employment, 2025
  • 5,647Establishments
  • $94,220Avg. annual pay
  • 5.1%Share of Colorado jobs
  • 0.63Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Colorado, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 155,000 to 146,800.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 155,000; 2005 151,000; 2006 149,500; 2007 147,200; 2008 144,600; 2009 130,000; 2010 125,900; 2011 129,500; 2012 132,400; 2013 133,000; 2014 136,600; 2015 141,200; 2016 142,800; 2017 144,400; 2018 147,600; 2019 150,500; 2020 146,800; 2021 149,000; 2022 153,300; 2023 151,500; 2024 149,300; 2025 146,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025146,7745,647$94,223 1.7%pub.
2024149,2735,915$89,777 1.5%pub.
2023151,5266,162$85,791 1.2%pub.
2022153,3496,055$82,608 2.9%pub.
2021149,0135,913$80,788 1.5%pub.
2020146,8335,892$77,225 2.4%pub.
2019150,4635,852$73,946 1.9%pub.
2018147,6435,807$70,698 2.2%pub.
2017144,4385,753$69,461 1.2%pub.
2016142,7655,715$66,346 1.1%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing26,56718.1%0.81pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing9,3716.4%1.54pub.
313Textile Mills220.0%0.01est. · 0.88
314Textile Product Mills1,0350.7%0.60pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing5200.4%0.35pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing910.1%0.21est. · 0.93
321Wood Product Manufacturing3,4042.3%0.46pub.
322Paper Manufacturing1,1560.8%0.18pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities3,8902.6%0.60pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing7870.5%0.39pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing8,3425.7%0.50pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing5,3303.6%0.41pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing7,8645.4%1.02pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing2,1291.5%0.32pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing14,5769.9%0.55pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing12,7838.7%0.63pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing20,87514.2%1.13pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing2,3191.6%0.29pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing11,2737.7%0.34pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing4,7633.2%0.77pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing9,6786.6%0.85pub.

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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Manufacturing in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in Colorado. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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