Ironworker salary in Colorado Springs, CO
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Ironworkers in the Colorado Springs, CO area earn a median of $55,690 a year, or $26.77 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $78,610 a year. Statewide, ironworkers earn a median of $58,830; Colorado Springs is 5% below it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $22.39/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 70
- After cost of living
- $55,300
- Median hourly pay
- $26.77/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −11%
- vs Colorado median
- −5%
- Mean (average) pay
- $59,240 a year · $28.48 an hour
Pay by percentile
What ironworkers in Colorado Springs, 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 | $22.39 | $46,570 |
| 25th percentile | $22.61 | $47,040 |
| Median (50th) | $26.77 | $55,690 |
| 75th percentile | $31.41 | $65,340 |
| 90th percentile | $37.79 | $78,610 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Colorado Springs, CO compares
- Colorado Springs has the lowest ironworker median of the 4 Colorado metro areas with published pay.
- Ironworkers are less concentrated in the Colorado Springs area than nationally: 0.2 of every 1,000 jobs, 0.50 times the U.S. share.
Other Colorado metro areas
Other trades in Colorado Springs, CO
Questions
- Do ironworkers make more in Colorado Springs or Fort Collins?
- Fort Collins pays more: the median is $55,690 in Colorado Springs and $62,670 in Fort Collins, a 11% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2221 (Structural Iron and Steel Workers), area code 17820 (Colorado Springs, CO). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed ironworkers 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 (100.7, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures