Mechatronics technician salary in Colorado (2026)

How much does a mechatronics technician make in Colorado?

The spread in Colorado is tighter than the national one. The bottom 10% here start around $58,500, well above the US bottom decile of $47,840, and the top 10% reach $88,020, which trails the national top decile of $109,890. So the floor is high and the ceiling is lower. That is a sign of a state where entry pay is solid but there are fewer very high paying senior roles pulling the top up.

The middle 50% land between $61,080 and $76,760. If you are negotiating a straightforward maintenance or automation technician job, that band is your reality. To push past $76,760 into the top quartile, you generally need shift differentials, a controls or PLC specialty, or a spot inside a semiconductor fab where equipment techs are paid to keep expensive tools running.

The location quotient of 1.99 is the demand story. Colorado does not have a huge headcount at 570 jobs, but relative to its size it employs these technicians at nearly twice the national rate. That concentration comes from the Front Range cluster of chip fabs, aerospace and defense manufacturing, and large automated distribution centers.

Colorado mechatronics salary: BLS vs Salary.com vs Indeed

The three sources disagree, and it matters where the numbers come from. BLS reports $74,730 from a survey of what Colorado employers actually pay. Salary.com models an average of $59,902 as of July 1, 2026, built from HR compensation data that leans toward a broader clerical read of the title. Indeed pulls from live job postings and lists $35.22 an hour, which annualizes to about $73,258, close to the BLS figure. Indeed's number, though, rests on just 14 reported salaries, so treat it as a directional signal, not a precise one.

When you are negotiating a Colorado offer, anchor to the BLS median of $74,730. It is the largest, most consistent sample, it reflects real employer payrolls, and it lines up with the Indeed posting data. Salary.com's $59,902 is the outlier here and reads low against what fabs and aerospace plants along the Front Range actually pay skilled technicians.

Mechatronics technician pay by metro area in Colorado

Metro-level data is thin. Indeed's only city figure is Littleton at $59,793 a year, and that sits well under the statewide BLS median of $74,730, so read it as a small sample from a handful of postings rather than a verdict on the town. The bigger paychecks tend to cluster where the fabs and defense plants are, which is the Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, and north Denver corridor rather than the southern suburbs.

How Colorado compares with nearby states

Inside the West, Colorado's $74,730 median lands in the middle of the pack. New Mexico is the regional outlier at $119,320, propped up by its national labs and defense sites, and Nevada ($82,010), California ($81,550), and Washington ($81,220) all pay more. Colorado sits just above Idaho ($70,830) and Oregon ($67,140). So you are not in a low-pay corner of the West, but several neighbors will pay a working technician more for the same skills.

Who hires mechatronics technicians in Colorado

The Front Range semiconductor cluster is the anchor. Broadcom runs a wafer fabrication facility in Fort Collins that needs equipment and metrology technicians to keep its tools running, and semiconductor employers around Colorado Springs, Thornton, and Fort Collins post steadily for maintenance and equipment techs. Fab work is where the high concentration and the better differentials show up.

Beyond chips, Amazon hires Mechatronics and Robotics Technicians at its Colorado fulfillment and sortation centers to maintain conveyors, sorters, and automated packaging lines. Aerospace and defense manufacturers and printed-circuit and electronics shops across the Denver and Aurora area round out the demand, which is what drives Colorado's location quotient close to 2.0.

How to earn more as a mechatronics technician in Colorado

Get into a semiconductor fab

Colorado's demand density is built on chip fabs, and fab equipment technicians are paid to keep multimillion-dollar tools online. That is where the top-quartile pay above $76,760 lives. If you can get on with an employer like Broadcom's Fort Collins operation or a Colorado Springs fab, you trade general maintenance work for specialized equipment work that pays a premium and comes with real shift differentials.

Stack certifications, especially controls

The gap between the median and the top decile in Colorado is mostly about specialty. PLC programming, industrial controls, and robotics maintenance are the skills that move you from a $61,080 to $76,760 middle-band job toward the $88,020 top. Build a certification stack around controls and automation and you give a hiring manager a concrete reason to pay you above the median.

Cross into a higher-paying neighbor or the engineer track

Several Western neighbors pay more for the same work. New Mexico's median is $119,320, and Nevada ($82,010), California ($81,550), and Washington ($81,220) all clear Colorado's $74,730. If relocating is on the table, that is real money. If it is not, the other ceiling-raiser is stepping up to the controls engineer track, where the pay scale starts higher than the technician band. The mechatronics salary guide lays out how that jump maps to pay.

Sources & methodology

Figures on this page come from four independent datasets, retrieved 2026-07-14. Where they disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than averaged away; the source-comparison section explains why each number differs.

• BLS OEWS, SOC 17-3024, May 2025 national and state estimates (state file oesm25st.zip). Employer-reported, the authoritative baseline.
• Salary.com, Mechatronics Technician in Colorado, as of July 01, 2026. HR-reported and modelled averages.
• Indeed, mechatronics technician salaries in Colorado, based on 14 reported salaries. Posting-derived.
• Semiconductor manufacturing jobs in Colorado (Indeed)
• Mechatronics jobs in Colorado (Glassdoor)