Product manager salary, Denver.
BLS metro median $182,470 for the occupation PMs are filed under.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wages for every metro area, but not for product managers as such: the Standard Occupational Classification has no product manager code. The title is filed under Marketing Managers (11-2021), and employers file technical and delivery-side product roles under the two codes either side of it. Read the three rows together as a bracket. For self-reported total compensation at named employers, including equity, check Levels.fyi, which publishes individual submissions rather than a survey.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metropolitan area (MSA 19740), annual wages. The Standard Occupational Classification has no product manager code, so these three occupations bracket the role rather than measure it. OEWS counts wages and salaries only: it excludes equity, and it reflects pay across every employer in the metro, not only technology companies.

Boulder (Boulder, CO)

BLS publishes this as a separate metro. Marketing Managers median $199,570, 630 employed.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, Boulder, CO metropolitan area (MSA 14500), annual wages. The Standard Occupational Classification has no product manager code, so these three occupations bracket the role rather than measure it. OEWS counts wages and salaries only: it excludes equity, and it reflects pay across every employer in the metro, not only technology companies.

Denver against peer metros

BLS OEWS May 2025 metropolitan-area medians, annual wages, sorted by the Marketing Managers (11-2021) median; 11-3021 is Computer and Information Systems Managers.

Colorado taxes income at a flat 4.4 percent for tax year 2025, so salary, bonus and RSU vesting are taxed at the same state rate whatever the income. A flat rate makes offers easy to compare: the state share does not rise with a promotion or a large vest.

Denver and Aurora add a small flat monthly occupational privilege tax on people who work in the city, rather than a percentage income tax. Compute net take-home against local prices when comparing with a no-income-tax metro such as Austin or Seattle.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes Regional Price Parities, which measure price levels against a US average of 100. Its 2024 figure for Colorado is 103.1, a statewide number rather than a Denver-only one. Set any offer against that, and against the income tax picture above, rather than comparing gross pay across metros. The state comparison applies the same price parities to every state.

Front Range PM hiring spans B2B SaaS, aerospace and defence, telecom and cable, health technology, and a Boulder startup community fed by its university and research labs. Several large technology employers keep sizeable Denver or Boulder offices.

The mix leans toward enterprise and technical products. PMs with aerospace, telecom or B2B SaaS depth will find more relevant roles here than a consumer-software PM.

BLS treats Boulder as a separate metropolitan area from Denver, and its table is shown above. Boulder is much smaller by employment but carries a concentrated startup and research community, and its medians for the occupations PMs are filed under differ from Denver's.

Small metros have wider sampling error in OEWS, so read Boulder's figures as a reference point rather than a precise benchmark.

Denver suits PMs with B2B, aerospace or telecom depth who want a flat state tax and an outdoor lifestyle. The trade-off is a smaller pool of senior roles than the coastal metros.

Compute net take-home against local prices before comparing with an Austin or Seattle offer.