Denver-metro finance jobs, September 2026
Denver-metro financial activities employers had 112,600 people on payroll in September 2026, down 3.2% from a year earlier. That is 6.8% of all payroll jobs in the metro, against 7.1% a year before.
Finance and insurance plus real estate, rental and leasing — banks, insurers, mortgage lenders, brokers and property managers. Real estate and lending also make it sensitive to interest rates in a way most sectors are not.
The two charts answer different questions. The count peaked at 120,000 in July 2022 and says whether the sector is hiring. The share — from 7.8% in January 1990, with a high of 8.6% in February 2004 and a low of 6.8% in September 2026 — says whether it is growing faster or slower than the rest of the economy.
Not seasonally adjusted, so compare a month with the same month a year earlier. The share is computed at read time from two series in the same BLS release, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Area Employment, financial activities and total nonfarm payrolls, Denver–Aurora–Centennial MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED (DENV708FIREN, DENV708NAN). The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.