Metro Denver has rich streaks of relatively rare occupations, labor report says
Jeff Pigati, a research geologist working at the U.S. Geological Survey in Lakewood, ran seeds from a site where human footprints were found alongside tracks of mammoths and saber tooth tigers at White Sands National Park in New Mexico through lab equipment to collect pure carbon samples.
For those who think geographers spend their time leafing through dusty maps, think again. Burton and his colleagues, like Joe Adams, guide drones across raging rivers that are flooding, above erupting volcanoes to track lava flows and across the vast Alaskan permafrost to measure methane emissions as temperatures warm.
“It can be difficult at times to see the forest from the trees,” said Ryan Gedney, a senior labor economist with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment who cut his teeth on the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey. If you are an employer wanting to know what the going wage is for an open job, a worker wanting to make sure the pay offered is at the market rate, or somebody curious about what makes a local economy tick, the survey offers a deep and detailed place to dive in.
“Our industry clusters are so specialized and very technical — information technology, digital communications, aerospace. Denver is a freight train of 21st-century careers that are high paying,” said Andrew Hudson, who runs aDenver International Airport and the three major carriers serving it — United Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines — also provide the metro area with a higher concentration of aviation workers. Aircraft service workers are present in metro Denver at 5.
CEOs came in as the sixth highest paid at $249,780 a year, but many, at least those heading public companies, make the While traditional practitioners of medicine are underrepresented, alternative providers are overrepresented. The concentration of acupuncturists is 3.8 times higher than found nationally, massage therapists are at 2.9 times and chiropractors at 1.2 times.
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