E-commerce Order Specialist salary in Denver-Aurora, CO

Pay in Denver-Aurora against Colorado and the US

E-commerce order specialists at the 90th percentile earn $64,380, 1.7 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 1.8. The middle half of e-commerce order specialists in Denver-Aurora earns $41,150–$59,390. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is $18,240 wide, wider than in Colorado as a whole ($17,530) and the US ($14,650), so what a e-commerce order specialist earns in Denver-Aurora depends more on the employer.

What to budget for an e-commerce order specialist here

An offer at the 75th percentile instead of the median adds $9,550 a year in pay and about $12,323 in employer cost. Going down to the 25th percentile saves $8,690 in pay. 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 $46,170 falls between the 25th percentile and the median in Denver-Aurora, and the Colorado statewide median of $49,530 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Denver-Aurora

At the $49,840 median, a local hire costs about $64,310 a year: benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², about $14,470 here. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

Our open e-commerce order specialist roles pay $700–$1,000 a month under a direct contract. The one-time fee is $2,500³ with a 180-day replacement; paying through Deel adds $49 a month⁴. Change any number below to match your plan.

A local hire here costs about 4.8 times as much as a remote hire in year one at the midpoint of our range. From year two, when the fee drops out, it is 6.0 times the remote figure of $10,788. About the candidates: most apply through our assessment platform with a written and a spoken English task; each profile shows the English level (B1–C2); Silkstaff interviews every shortlisted candidate live, in English, before you meet them.

Other roles in Denver-Aurora

Of the 17 roles we track in Denver-Aurora, this one ranks #12 by median pay, between HR assistants ($56,100) and administrative assistants ($49,760). Project Coordinator is the highest at $116,740.

Measured against the US median, e-commerce order specialists rank #14 of the 17 roles we track in Denver-Aurora (+7.9%), between customer support specialists (+8.5%) and administrative assistants (+4.7%). The typical role here is at +11.2%, so, measured against the US, e-commerce order specialists cost less in Denver-Aurora than the area's general pay level would suggest. E-commerce order specialists hold 0.7% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Denver-Aurora, 0.6% across Colorado and 0.5% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Colorado

Across the 9 areas of Colorado with data for this job, the median runs from $41,530 in Grand Junction to $50,420 in Fort Collins-Loveland, a gap of $8,890 a year. No other area in Colorado has as many e-commerce order specialists, and 6 of the other 8 pay less.

Denver-Aurora against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Denver-Aurora is #6 of 278 US areas, one of the ten largest markets for this job. Outside Colorado, Reading and Hartford-West Hartford pay just above Denver-Aurora and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Providence-Warwick just below. All four are within $450 a year of the median in Denver-Aurora. Of the three markets with about as many e-commerce order specialists, one pays more.

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