Salaries and Benefits

The state of Colorado’s statutory philosophy is to provide prevailing total compensation (competitive or comparable to the market) to recruit, retain and motivate a qualified workforce.

The major components of total compensation are summarized and include:

Pay (official compensation plan)
Group Benefit Plans
Retirement Plans
Performance Pay
Work-life (premium pay)
Paid Time-off

The department has developed a strategy that sets the vision and direction for achieving competitive total compensation. A history of benefits and compensation changes to the personnel system is documented in the Total Compensation Time Line.