Do electricians make more in Denver or Boulder?

Boulder pays more: the median is $63,150 in Denver and $64,120 in Boulder, a 2% difference.

Electrician salary in Denver, CO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Electricians in the Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO area earn a median of $63,150 a year, or $30.36 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. One in ten earns more than $94,160. That's 1% more than the Colorado median of $62,230.

Median yearly pay$63,150

Bottom 10% under$46,070Top 10% over$94,160

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $22.15/hr
Jobs in this area: 10,450
After cost of living: $59,700
Median hourly pay: $30.36/hr
vs U.S. median: 0%
vs Colorado median: +1%
Mean (average) pay: $67,590 a year · $32.50 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 19740, Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO). Excludes self-employed electricians. Cost of living: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024. *Starting pay is estimated from the 10th percentile; BLS does not report pay by license level.

Pay by percentile

What electricians in Denver, CO earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.

Percentile	Hourly	Yearly
10th percentile	$22.15	$46,070
25th percentile	$23.52	$48,920
Median (50th)	$30.36	$63,150
75th percentile	$38.28	$79,620
90th percentile	$45.27	$94,160

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.

How Denver, CO compares

Denver ranks 3rd of 7 Colorado metro areas for electrician pay.
Electricians are more concentrated in the Denver area than nationally: 6.5 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.3 times the U.S. share.

Other Colorado metro areas

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Questions

Do electricians make more in Denver or Boulder?: Boulder pays more: the median is $63,150 in Denver and $64,120 in Boulder, a 2% difference.

About this data

Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2111 (Electricians), area code 19740 (Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed electricians and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (105.8, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures