- The middle half earn between $34.00 and $48.39 an hour.
- Colorado ranks 21st of the 50 states and DC for median pay in this trade.
- Colorado pays more than all 7 neighboring states.
- BLS counts about 21,380 construction supervisors on payrolls in Colorado.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $139.17 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Colorado, bottom to top
BLS calls this group first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers: the foremen and crew leads who run the work on site.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $28.72 | $59,740 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $34.00 | $70,720 | $30.48 |
| Median | $39.05 | $81,230 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $48.39 | $100,650 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $59.02 | $122,770 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $41.93 | $87,220 | $41.56 |
Pay is bunched up in Colorado. The top tenth earn $59.02 an hour or more, about 2.1 times the $28.72 at the bottom tenth. Nationally that gap is 2.4 times, so the step from the bottom of the scale to the top is shorter here than in most places.
The floor is higher than nationally ($28.72 against $25.62) but the ceiling is lower ($59.02 against $61.66), which squeezes pay toward the middle.
The average wage, $41.93, sits 7% above the median. A smaller group of higher earners pulls the average up, so the median is the better guide to what a typical construction supervisor makes.
How Colorado compares with other states
Over a full year the gap to the national median is small: $81,230 in Colorado against $79,920 nationally, $1,310 more.
In the state ranking, Colorado sits 21st, between North Dakota ($39.12) and Delaware ($38.99). New Hampshire has exactly the same median, $39.05, so the two share that place. The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Colorado pays construction supervisors more than any of its neighboring states, Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming. Someone working near the border can earn more by taking work on this side of it.
| Neighboring state | Median hourly | Median yearly | Against Colorado |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | $39.05 | $81,230 | |
| Arizona | $37.76 | $78,550 | −$1.29 an hour |
| Kansas | $36.91 | $76,780 | −$2.14 an hour |
| Nebraska | $36.33 | $75,570 | −$2.72 an hour |
| New Mexico | $36.12 | $75,130 | −$2.93 an hour |
| Oklahoma | $35.11 | $73,040 | −$3.94 an hour |
| Utah | $37.15 | $77,280 | −$1.90 an hour |
| Wyoming | $37.62 | $78,250 | −$1.43 an hour |
How many construction supervisors work in Colorado
About 21,380 construction supervisors work on payrolls in Colorado, 2.6% of the 812,210 nationwide, the 11th largest count among the states.
The trade is a bigger part of the local job market than it is nationally: 7.4 of every 1,000 jobs in Colorado, 1.4 times the national share.
What a contracting business in Colorado should charge
Say you run a contracting business in Colorado and pay the state median of $39.05 an hour. Here is the labor rate calculator's math on its starting numbers: 40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit.
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $39.05 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $87,438 |
| Break-even rate | ($87,438 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $118.29 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $118.29 ÷ 0.85 | $139.17 |
That is $139.17 per billable hour, 3.6 times the wage, and $1.11 more than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $48.39 in Colorado, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $155.57.
A cheaper crew saves less than it seems: at the 25th percentile wage of $34.00, the rate only drops to $130.30.
At this wage the pay itself is the biggest part of the price, so every raise shows up in the rate: a dollar more an hour adds about $1.76 per billed hour.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 47-1011, first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: construction supervisor salary by state.