High paying engineering and architecture jobs in Colorado Springs, CO with no experience
The best paid engineering and architecture occupations in Colorado Springs, CO that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.
Cost of living: prices in Colorado Springs, CO run 0.7% above the national average (2024), so a Colorado Springs, CO salary is worth about 0.99× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.
Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.
Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024
Associate's degree
$49,700 – $98,630160Associate's degree
$43,190 – $102,200170Associate's degree
$43,710 – $101,350180Associate's degree
$49,080 – $97,100210Associate's degree
$48,080 – $101,050360High school diploma or equivalent
$38,340 – $77,850250
Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.
| # | Occupation | MedianColorado Springs, CO | 10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker | Employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All OtherAssociate's degree | $71,630 | $49,700 – $98,630 | 160 |
| 2 | Civil Engineering Technologists and TechniciansAssociate's degree | $69,860 | $43,190 – $102,200 | 170 |
| 3 | Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and TechniciansAssociate's degree | $69,610 | $43,710 – $101,350 | 180 |
| 4 | Industrial Engineering Technologists and TechniciansAssociate's degree | $64,080 | $49,080 – $97,100 | 210 |
| 5 | Architectural and Civil DraftersAssociate's degree | $61,850 | $48,080 – $101,050 | 360 |
| 6 | Surveying and Mapping TechniciansHigh school diploma or equivalent | $60,480 | $38,340 – $77,850 | 250 |
Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Colorado Springs, CO. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.
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