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Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

Pueblo, CO metropolitan area. Estimated employment 640.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 25-2021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$62,000 · 50th
$47,94010th
$51,55025th
$62,00050th
$75,28075th
$79,82090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Pueblo earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$62,000 in Pueblo buys what $67,600 buys across the country as a whole.

Pueblo's regional price parity is 91.8 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Colorado

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Pueblo
Boulder$80,640$76,700105.2+13.4%
Denver$76,910$72,700105.8+7.6%
Fort Collins$62,930$62,200101.1−7.9%
Pueblo This page$62,000$67,60091.8
Colorado Springs$61,140$60,700100.7−10.1%
Greeley$60,160$60,100100.2−11.1%
Grand Junction$52,230$54,70095.5−19.0%

Price parity and difference against Pueblo are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employment
640 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 25-2021, Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education. Mapped to our taxonomy as elementary-school-teachers-except-special-education.

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