SALARY · FOOD SERVERS, NONRESTAURANT · COLORADO

Food Servers, Nonrestaurant salary in Colorado

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For food servers, nonrestaurant in Colorado, BLS put the median at $38,900 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$38,900

$19 per hour at the median · That is $3,540 (10.0 percent) above the national median of $35,360 for this occupation.

$40,920Mean annual salary
$20Mean hourly wage
$7,750People employed in this job in Colorado

Salary range

25th: $35,990Median: $38,90075th: $45,850
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$35,990
Median (50th percentile)$38,900
75th percentile$45,850
Mean$40,920

The middle half of workers earned from $35,990 to $45,850 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$32,433 a year
$2,703 a month
Federal tax $2,488 · FICA $2,976 · State tax $1,003

Caveat: the Colorado worksheet was retrieved via a reproduction, not a direct tax.colorado.gov page, and TABOR refunds are excluded.

The Denver occupational privilege tax is a flat dollar charge and is not in this figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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