Colorado · NAICS 54 · Annual, 2025
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Colorado
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 54 in Colorado, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 54) employed about 292,600 people in Colorado across roughly 56,638 establishments, with average annual pay of $146,310.
Employment in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Colorado grew 21.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Colorado as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.45). Average pay in the industry is 73.9% above 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.
- 292,600Employment, 2025
- 56,638Establishments
- $146,310Avg. annual pay
- 10.1%Share of Colorado jobs
- 1.45Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 145,600; 2005 156,800; 2006 163,700; 2007 171,800; 2008 177,600; 2009 170,700; 2010 168,700; 2011 174,000; 2012 179,800; 2013 190,500; 2014 198,100; 2015 206,100; 2016 211,700; 2017 217,400; 2018 226,100; 2019 237,000; 2020 240,800; 2021 256,700; 2022 280,600; 2023 293,000; 2024 292,800; 2025 292,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 292,561 | 56,638 | $146,306 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 292,804 | 55,492 | $134,921 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2023 | 292,956 | 57,030 | $128,920 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 280,634 | 53,325 | $121,570 | 9.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 256,707 | 46,552 | $116,327 | 6.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 240,809 | 41,698 | $106,041 | 1.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 236,973 | 39,546 | $103,162 | 4.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 226,130 | 37,879 | $97,815 | 4.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 217,370 | 36,567 | $93,557 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 211,698 | 35,294 | $90,413 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Colorado, quarterly, at full depth
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