HR Jobs in Denver, CO

Government wage data is the best anchor here. For human resources specialists in the Denver metro, BLS shows a mean annual wage of $90,400, a median of $82,550, a 25th percentile of $63,520, and a 75th percentile of $105,910 in May 2025. Current directional pay signals are similar but should be treated as proxy data: local posted salary ranges center on about $80k to $105k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts the Colorado mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation family at about $92,409 in September 2026 (n=1,039).

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 98 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $65,538 at the 25th percentile, $80,500 at the median and $102,500 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Denver is a real HR market, but it is not an easy one right now. The metro employed 12,520 human resources specialists in May 2025 and had an above-average local concentration with a 1.33 location quotient, yet the broader metro unemployment rate reached 4.6% in August 2026 and metro Professional and Business Services employment was only 0.1885% higher than a year earlier. Colorado-wide occupation signals are still positive but not expanding fast: human resources, recruiting, and people operations employment was up 0.7% year over year in September 2026 while active postings were down 0.9%.

Best positioned: Candidates with roughly mid-career experience who can own full-cycle recruiting or HR generalist work, use ATS and HRIS tools, and show data-analysis and stakeholder-management range fit the biggest slice of current demand.

Main caution: Expect slower, role-specific processes: the typical active posting has been open around 34 days, and only about 10% of sampled openings were remote.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 116 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. AO Garcia Agency: 6 open roles
2. EchoStar Corporation: 6 open roles
3. HCA Healthcare: 3 open roles
4. Kiewit: 3 open roles
5. Kiewit Infrastructure Co.: 3 open roles
6. Loenbro: 3 open roles
7. Xanterra: 3 open roles
8. AutoNation Inc.: 2 open roles
9. Bagel Brands: 2 open roles
10. Colorado Circular Communities Enterprise: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Denver: 54
• Centennial: 10
• Lakewood: 8
• Thornton: 5
• Greenwood Village: 5
• Westminster: 5
• Lone Tree: 5
• Englewood: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 70 (61%), hybrid 33 (29%), remote 11 (10%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is not concentrated in one employer. In the recent local sample, hiring was fragmented across more than 100 companies, with named activity from EchoStar Corporation, Primoris Services Corporation, The Wrap, Arthur J. Gallagher group, DaVita Inc., HTU, and Natural Grocers. That matters because a broad-target search fits how this market is actually hiring. The category is also not evenly distributed across industries. The most-active industries in the sample were construction at about 25%, insurance at about 15%, software development at about 15%, telecommunications at about 15%, and human resources services at about 10%. Seniority leaned mid-career, with about 45% mid-level postings versus about 20% entry and about 20% senior, which makes Denver friendlier to candidates who can already own requisitions, employee processes, or stakeholder relationships. Pay rises with specialization, but so does the barrier: typical postings center on about $80k to $105k, while compensation-specialist and HR-manager tracks sit higher and narrower.

• Construction and field-heavy employers (high): Construction accounts for about 25% of sampled local postings, and these employers often need HR support that works well in on-site or hybrid settings with distributed teams.
• Insurance, telecom, and software corporate teams (moderate): Insurance, software development, and telecommunications each represent about 15% of sampled demand, making them practical targets for recruiters, HR generalists, and HRIS-fluent candidates.
• Fully remote HR and recruiting roles (limited): Only about 10% of sampled postings were remote, so a remote-only search strategy faces a meaningfully smaller pool.

Where to focus: Target mid-career hybrid or on-site roles at multi-site employers in construction, insurance, telecommunications, and software, and lead with ATS, HRIS, stakeholder-management, and reporting examples.

Roles worth searching next

• HR systems analyst / business systems analyst: ATS and HRIS exposure transfers well into systems ownership, workflow design, and reporting.
• Customer success manager in HR tech or staffing software: Recruiting and HR process knowledge is useful when helping clients adopt recruiting, payroll, or workforce tools.
• Business operations coordinator / project coordinator: Interview coordination, onboarding, documentation, and stakeholder management translate well into broader operations work.
• Sales or account roles in staffing and workforce services: Agency recruiting experience often transfers into employer acquisition, account growth, and workforce-solution selling.

What postings ask for

• Applicant tracking systems (table_stakes | immediate): Applicant tracking systems show up among the most-requested hard skills locally, so employers treat them as baseline operating fluency rather than a bonus. Who: Entry-level candidates, recruiters, and career switchers.
• Full-cycle recruiting (table_stakes | immediate): Full-cycle recruiting is one of the recurring skill asks in the local sample, which lines up with a market that favors candidates who can own more of the hiring process end to end. Who: Recruiters and staffing-side candidates trying to move in-house.
• HRIS, especially Workday familiarity (differentiator | near-term): HRIS appears in the local skill mix, and Workday is highlighted as a nationally in-demand HR system for HR and compensation work. Who: Mid-career HR generalists, people-ops candidates, and anyone targeting larger employers.
• Data analysis and workforce reporting (differentiator | immediate): Data analysis is one of the most-requested local skills, which matters in a market where hiring is selective and teams want better reporting from fewer hires. Who: Mid-career candidates, HRBP-track applicants, and career switchers from operations or analytics.
• Stakeholder management (differentiator | immediate): Stakeholder management appears in the local demand mix and tends to separate candidates who can influence hiring managers and business leaders from those who only execute tasks. Who: Mid-career recruiters, HR generalists, and business-facing people-ops applicants.
• PHR (differentiator | near-term): PHR is one of the most commonly required certifications in local postings, though only a small share of openings explicitly require it. Who: HR generalists and career switchers who need a credibility boost more than recruiters do.

Questions about this market

What do Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles pay in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO?

Government wage data is the best anchor here. For human resources specialists in the Denver metro, BLS shows a mean annual wage of $90,400, a median of $82,550, a 25th percentile of $63,520, and a 75th percentile of $105,910 in May 2025. Current directional pay signals are similar but should be treated as proxy data: local posted salary ranges center on about $80k to $105k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts the Colorado mean offered salary on new openings for this occupation family at about $92,409 in September 2026 (n=1,039). Denver pays above the national HR-specialist benchmark, where the U.S. median was $75,940 and the mean was $81,990. That is attractive for experienced practitioners, but it does not make the market easy to enter.

Where is demand for Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO concentrated?

Real opportunity is not concentrated in one employer. In the recent local sample, hiring was fragmented across more than 100 companies, with named activity from EchoStar Corporation, Primoris Services Corporation, The Wrap, Arthur J. Gallagher group, DaVita Inc., HTU, and Natural Grocers. That matters because a broad-target search fits how this market is actually hiring. The category is also not evenly distributed across industries. The most-active industries in the sample were construction at about 25%, insurance at about 15%, software development at about 15%, telecommunications at about 15%, and human resources services at about 10%. Seniority leaned mid-career, with about 45% mid-level postings versus about 20% entry and about 20% senior, which makes Denver friendlier to candidates who can already own requisitions, employee processes, or stakeholder relationships. Pay rises with specialization, but so does the barrier: typical postings center on about $80k to $105k, while compensation-specialist and HR-manager tracks sit higher and narrower.

Which employers are hiring the most Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations talent in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO?

Recent postings show the most activity from EchoStar Corporation (5 postings), Primoris Services Corporation (5 postings), The Wrap (5 postings), Arthur J. Gallagher group (5 postings), DaVita Inc. (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Human Resources, Recruiting & People Operations roles in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 40% hybrid, with 50% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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