SOC 29-1151 · Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations · May 2025

How much do Nurse Anesthetists make in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Nurse Anesthetists in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO is $216,700. The 10th percentile is $182,160 and the 90th percentile is $234,090. Employment is 200.

Median annual wage

$216,700

10th percentile
$182,160
25th percentile
$214,450
Median
$216,700
75th percentile
$217,320
90th percentile
$234,090
Mean
$215,300

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Cooks in a Washington state kitchen, 1930. Seattle Municipal Archives. Photograph by Seattle Municipal Archives. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0

Percentile spread

For Nurse Anesthetists, the published 10th percentile is $182,160 and the 90th percentile is $234,090. The difference is $51,930, which is 24.0% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $214,450 to the 75th at $217,320, covers $2,870.

The mean annual wage is $215,300, which sits below the median of $216,700. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO median is 8.4% lower than the national median of $236,590 for Nurse Anesthetists. In 2024 national prices the local median is $204,855, which is 13.4% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO is 105.782, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $216,700 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Nurse Anesthetists at $204,855 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Nurse Anesthetists in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Nurse Anesthetists accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO (200 of 1,609,350). Nationally the occupation is 0.03% of employment (51,840 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.37 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO · Nurse Anesthetists by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Nurse Anesthetists make in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Nurse Anesthetists in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO is $216,700. The 10th percentile is $182,160 and the 90th percentile is $234,090. Employment is 200.

How does that compare with the national median for Nurse Anesthetists?

The local median is 8.4% lower than the national median of $236,590.

What is Nurse Anesthetists pay in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO is 105.782, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $216,700 is $204,855. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.