Larimer County's Salary Policy

The largest portion of the County's budget is for employee salaries. Like any other business, Larimer County must compete with other employers to hire and keep employees. Having qualified employees saves taxpayers money by providing services in a professional and efficient manner. Wages that are not competitive result in high turnover rates and expensive retraining of new employees.

Larimer County has adopted a philosophy of setting the pay structure at the market average of the job market. This means that when comparing jobs in the Northern Front Range and similar entities across Colorado, Larimer County will be paying average. We use the Mountain States Employer's Council surveys, which are an annual surveys of public and private sector jobs.

Report Salary Information for all Larimer County Government Employees

The Colorado Revised Statutes, under CRS 30-25-111 (1.5), require Counties to publish salary information for all their employees twice annually, in February and in August of each year. A newspaper is selected through a bid process, with the full listing going to the lowest bidder for publication as a "legal notice". The full listing published in February reports each employee by job title, and the total amount of wages paid to the employee during the prior year. The full listing published in August reports each employee by job title, and the monthly salary as of June 30th of the current year.

In addition to wages, all Larimer County employees are provided mandatory benefits (workers compensation, unemployment insurance, and Social Security taxes) which equal approximately 11% of wages; regular status employees are also provided non-mandatory benefits (medical, dental, life and disability insurances and a retirement plan) which equal another approximately 17% of wages.

Employee Wages