This Colorado college town has seen its wages grow by $12 an hour since 2019.
Wages nationwide have been struggling to keep up with the cost of living, especially in Colorado. However, the state’s three biggest metro areas outside of Denver boasted a rise in the average hourly wages, especially in one Front Range college town.
Boulder was ranked among the top-ten U.S. metros with growing wages from May 2019 to May 2024 in a new study put out by AlgoCademy, with Colorado Springs and Greeley joining Boulder in the top fifty. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the study ranked nearly 400 metro areas in the United States based on the percentage average hourly wages increased during a five-year period…