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Healthcare Support Occupations
Across all 17 of this group's occupations with published Colorado employment, 106,570 Coloradans work in healthcare support occupations. Weighted by those published jobs, the group's mean exposure score is 13.1 of 100, and 0.0% of the jobs are in occupations where most or a large minority of tasks overlap with AI capabilities assessed in 2023.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides; Nursing Assistants; Medical Assistants — the largest of this group's 17 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
- 106,570 across all 17 occupations · OEWS 2025
- Employment-weighted mean score
- 13.1 0–100 scale · published statewide data only
- High + substantial share
- 0.0% of the group's published jobs · score ≥ 45 of 100
- CO median wages
- $37,580–$75,340 range across the 17 occupations with published medians · annual, 2025
Plate I
Tier mix within the group
How this group's 17 occupations — and its 106,570 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 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| substantial overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| some overlap | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
| little overlap | 17 | 106,570 | 100.0% |
Plate II
The ten largest occupations in this group
| Occupation | Tier | Score | CO jobs | CO median wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | little overlap | 13.1 | 44,650 | $38,540 |
| Nursing Assistants | little overlap | 13.6 | 22,240 | $47,380 |
| Medical Assistants | little overlap | 14.1 | 13,160 | $48,400 |
| Dental Assistants | little overlap | 10.0 | 8,360 | $48,340 |
| Massage Therapists | little overlap | 18.5 | 3,950 | $61,060 |
| Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers | little overlap | 14.8 | 2,910 | $38,900 |
| Healthcare Support Workers, All Other | little overlap | 10.5 | 2,650 | $47,330 |
| Phlebotomists | little overlap | 11.0 | 2,420 | $47,180 |
| Medical Equipment Preparers | little overlap | 3.7 | 1,950 | $47,700 |
| Physical Therapist Assistants | little overlap | 10.3 | 1,350 | $64,810 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baca | 7.7% | 90 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Pueblo | 7.5% | 4,591 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Las Animas | 7.5% | 346 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Montezuma | 7.1% | 665 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Delta | 7.1% | 624 | Partially imputed estimate |
| Alamosa | 7.0% | 574 | Partially imputed estimate |