Bookkeeper salary in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Pay in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against Colorado and the US

The middle half of bookkeepers in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area earns $41,270–$55,100. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $65,620, only 1.8 times the bottom tenth, against 2.1 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $13,830 wide, against $17,770 across Colorado and $17,950 nationally: employers in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a bookkeeper here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $6,360 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $7,470, or about $9,639 once benefits are added. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $50,670 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, and the Colorado statewide median of $54,000 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

At the $47,630 median, a local hire costs about $61,458 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $13,828 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area

Of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, this one ranks #11 by median pay, between HR assistants ($48,690) and medical administrative assistants ($45,460). Project Coordinator is the highest at $96,080.

Measured against the US median, bookkeepers rank #9 of the 16 roles we track in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area (-6.0%), between HR assistants (-3.8%) and project coordinators (-6.1%). The typical role here is at -4.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Bookkeepers hold 16.7% of the jobs in the 15 of these roles with a job count in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, 9.4% across Colorado and 9.5% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 10 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $46,840 in Colorado Springs to $57,510 in Denver-Aurora, a gap of $10,670 a year. Of the 7 areas in Colorado with more bookkeepers than the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area, 1 pays less: Colorado Springs, CO ($46,840).

the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area is #295 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Colorado, Dubuque and Peoria pay just above the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area and Provo-Orem and York-Hanover just below. All four are within $40 a year of the median in the Eastern and Southern Colorado nonmetro area. Of the three markets with about as many bookkeepers, one pays more.

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