Denver
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
MEDIUM 2026-04-29 (Round F), newly added. Denver city minimum wage is high but doesn't directly apply to gig delivery contractors. Earnings figure is a market-median estimate based on national platform aggregator data calibrated for Denver market. To promote to HIGH: need a Colorado-specific tier-1/2 source for gig delivery hourly earnings.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: BLS OES + market estimate
What would you take home in Denver?
Take-home, weekly
n/a
Take-home, monthly
n/a
Gross, weekly
$510
Gross, monthly
$2,210
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 41% of local minimum wage, 27% of local median.
Notes
Denver has the 4th highest US local minimum wage at $19.29/hr (2026).
View Denver on the interactive map
See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.
Primary earnings source: www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25ma.zip · archived