Security Guards
Fort Collins-Loveland, CO metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,080.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of security guards in Fort Collins earn more.
$43,320 in Fort Collins buys what $42,800 buys across the country as a whole.
Fort Collins's regional price parity is 101.1 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Colorado
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Fort Collins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder | $46,450 | $44,200 | 105.2 | +3.1% |
| Denver | $45,420 | $42,900 | 105.8 | +0.2% |
| Fort Collins This page | $43,320 | $42,800 | 101.1 | — |
| Colorado Springs | $42,670 | $42,400 | 100.7 | −1.1% |
| Pueblo | $40,360 | $44,000 | 91.8 | +2.7% |
| Grand Junction | $38,590 | $40,400 | 95.5 | −5.6% |
| Greeley | $37,190 | $37,100 | 100.2 | −13.3% |
Price parity and difference against Fort Collins are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 18.4% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — security guards in Fort Collins earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 1,080 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 33-9032, Security Guards. Mapped to our taxonomy as security-guards.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.