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Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations
Across the 63 of this group's 71 occupations with published Colorado employment, 152,560 Coloradans work in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations (8 more occupations have no published Colorado estimate, so the true total is somewhat higher). Weighted by those published jobs, the group's mean exposure score is 30.3 of 100, and 3.3% of the jobs are in occupations where most or a large minority of tasks overlap with AI capabilities assessed in 2023.
Registered Nurses; Pharmacy Technicians; Physical Therapists — the largest of this group's 71 occupations in Colorado.
Every statewide figure on this page is computed directly on published BLS OEWS Colorado state data — a different basis from the county estimates elsewhere on this site, which model occupation mixes from industry mix. The one county table below is labeled accordingly.
- Published CO employment
- 152,560 across 63 of 71 occupations · OEWS 2025
- Employment-weighted mean score
- 30.3 0–100 scale · published statewide data only
- High + substantial share
- 3.3% of the group's published jobs · score ≥ 45 of 100
- CO median wages
- $45,750–$416,000 range across the 66 occupations with published medians · annual, 2025
Plate I
Tier mix within the group
How this group's 71 occupations — and its 152,560 published Colorado jobs — split across the four task-overlap tiers (cuts at 60/45/30 on the 0–100 score scale).
| Tier | Occupations | Published CO jobs | Share of published jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| high overlap | 1 | 40 | 0.0% |
| substantial overlap | 6 | 4,990 | 3.3% |
| some overlap | 30 | 100,810 | 66.1% |
| little overlap | 34 | 46,720 | 30.6% |
Plate II
The ten largest occupations in this group
| Occupation | Tier | Score | CO jobs | CO median wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nurses | some overlap | 33.5 | 54,490 | $100,260 |
| Pharmacy Technicians | some overlap | 42.6 | 6,010 | $49,970 |
| Physical Therapists | some overlap | 34.0 | 5,630 | $102,030 |
| Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians | some overlap | 30.9 | 5,000 | $70,050 |
| Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses | little overlap | 25.0 | 4,920 | $73,880 |
| Pharmacists | some overlap | 40.0 | 4,560 | $156,030 |
| Speech-Language Pathologists | some overlap | 39.0 | 4,420 | $110,750 |
| Nurse Practitioners | some overlap | 31.5 | 4,270 | $132,930 |
| Dental Hygienists | little overlap | 9.4 | 4,270 | $109,580 |
| Radiologic Technologists and Technicians | little overlap | 28.1 | 3,960 | $87,760 |
Plate III
Where this work concentrates
The six counties where this group is the largest share of local jobs. These county figures are estimates — modeled from each county's industry mix, not published counts (how county estimates are built) — and a share of a small county's job base can rank above a metro county's much larger absolute employment.
| County | Est. share of county jobs | Est. group jobs | Data quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiowa | 13.9% | 68 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Baca | 13.4% | 156 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Sedgwick | 12.6% | 89 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Cheyenne | 10.3% | 74 | Heavily imputed estimate |
| Phillips | 9.8% | 175 | Heavily imputed estimate |
| Rio Blanco | 9.6% | 274 | Heavily imputed estimate |