How many sign shops are in the Denver area?

Name: Sign shops in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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89 sign shops

in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 8% larger share of local private employers than they do nationally. The area holds 51.7% of Colorado's sign shops.

Shops vs 2023+1.1%1 more shops than 2023

Concentration1.08×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The Denver area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
9	Phoenix areaAZ	109	—	—	1.17×
10	Tampa areaFL	100	1,226	$62,282	1.33×
11	Detroit areaMI	94	—	—	1.37×
12	Denver areaCO	89	—	—	1.08×
13	Seattle areaWA	86	875	$66,032	1.11×
14	Minneapolis areaMN-WI	84	—	—	1.22×
15	Orlando areaFL	80	703	$59,193	1.33×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. For Colorado as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the Colorado page.

Other metro areas in Colorado

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Colorado Springs area	19	—	—	1.15×
Fort Collins area	18	177	$56,830	1.87×
Greeley area	9	61	$41,063	1.50×
Boulder area	8	—	—	0.68×
Grand Junction area	7	51	$51,034	1.96×
Pueblo area	2	—	—	0.82×

Sign permits in Denver

Before a sign goes up in Denver, the city's code decides whether it needs a permit and how large it can be. Denver's sign rules, summarised by PrinterFlo, list what triggers a permit and the limits a design has to meet.

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Denver area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 89 sign manufacturing establishments in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 12 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the Denver area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the Denver area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, Colorado's sign shops paid an average of $56,796 that year.

Does the Denver area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, yes: sign shops make up a 8% larger share of the Denver area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 1.08, where 1.00 is the national share).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), annual averages, private ownership, NAICS 339950 Sign Manufacturing, Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metropolitan statistical area, 2024 and 2023 annual averages, read September 24, 2026. 2024 is the latest year the BLS has published for metro areas. Concentration is the BLS location quotient for establishments. Ranks computed from the 383 metro areas with a published count; tied areas share a rank.