Colorado · NAICS 531 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate in Colorado
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 531 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate (NAICS 531) employed about 44,600 people in Colorado across roughly 13,243 establishments, with average annual pay of $87,190.
Employment in Real Estate in Colorado grew 6.7% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Colorado as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.30). 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.
- 44,600Employment, 2025
- 13,243Establishments
- $87,190Avg. annual pay
- 1.5%Share of Colorado jobs
- 1.30Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 32,800; 2005 33,800; 2006 34,600; 2007 34,800; 2008 33,900; 2009 31,500; 2010 30,800; 2011 30,700; 2012 31,400; 2013 32,200; 2014 33,200; 2015 35,100; 2016 37,000; 2017 38,500; 2018 40,100; 2019 41,800; 2020 41,800; 2021 44,300; 2022 45,400; 2023 45,400; 2024 45,000; 2025 44,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44,602 | 13,243 | $87,193 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2024 | 45,047 | 13,446 | $82,380 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 45,397 | 14,342 | $80,920 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2022 | 45,418 | 13,878 | $81,457 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 44,269 | 13,070 | $74,517 | 5.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 41,815 | 12,214 | $66,378 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 41,819 | 11,493 | $62,146 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2018 | 40,124 | 10,918 | $59,940 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2017 | 38,523 | 10,319 | $57,737 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2016 | 36,974 | 9,657 | $56,060 | 5.2% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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.
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Real Estate in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth
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