Do ironworkers make more in Greeley or Fort Collins?

Fort Collins pays more: the median is $59,100 in Greeley and $62,670 in Fort Collins, a 6% difference.

Ironworker salary in Greeley, CO

Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025

Ironworkers in the Greeley, CO area earn a median of $59,100 a year, or $28.41 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The top 10% earn more than $75,740. That's about the same as the Colorado median of $58,830.

Median yearly pay$59,100

Bottom 10% under$41,630Top 10% over$75,740

Apprentice starting pay (estimate): $20.01/hr
Jobs in this area: 80
After cost of living: $59,000
Median hourly pay: $28.41/hr
vs U.S. median: −6%
vs Colorado median: 0%
Mean (average) pay: $59,470 a year · $28.59 an hour

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (area 24540, Greeley, CO). Excludes self-employed ironworkers. 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 ironworkers in Greeley, 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	$20.01	$41,630
25th percentile	$23.86	$49,630
Median (50th)	$28.41	$59,100
75th percentile	$33.75	$70,200
90th percentile	$36.41	$75,740

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

How Greeley, CO compares

Greeley ranks 3rd of 4 Colorado metro areas for ironworker pay.
Ironworkers are more concentrated in the Greeley area than nationally: 0.7 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.5 times the U.S. share.

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Questions

Do ironworkers make more in Greeley or Fort Collins?: Fort Collins pays more: the median is $59,100 in Greeley and $62,670 in Fort Collins, a 6% 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 24540 (Greeley, 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 (100.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures