# Colorado — State pay transparency laws — salary range disclosure requirements

For Colorado, statute citation is Colorado Revised Statutes Title 8. Labor and Industry § 8-5-201; what must be disclosed is An employer must in good faith disclose the following in the notification of each job opportunity: (a) The hourly or salary compensation or the range of the hourly or salary compensation; (b) A general description of the benefits and other compensation applicable to the job opportunity; and (c) The date the application window is anticipated to close; effective date / cure period is if an employer is only physically located outside of Colorado and has fewer than fifteen employees working in Colorado, all of whom work only remotely, then, through July 1, 2029, the employer is only required to provide notice of remote job opportunities, verified against its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** Colorado _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute citation:** Colorado Revised Statutes Title 8. Labor and Industry § 8-5-201 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What must be disclosed:** An employer must in good faith disclose the following in the notification of each job opportunity: (a) The hourly or salary compensation or the range of the hourly or salary compensation; (b) A general description of the benefits and other compensation applicable to the job opportunity; and (c) The date the application window is anticipated to close. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Effective date / cure period:** if an employer is only physically located outside of Colorado and has fewer than fifteen employees working in Colorado, all of whom work only remotely, then, through July 1, 2029, the employer is only required to provide notice of remote job opportunities _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> (1) An employer shall make reasonable efforts to announce, post, or otherwise make known each job opportunity to all employees on the same calendar day and prior to the date on which the employer makes a selection decision; except that, if an employer is only physically located outside of Colorado and has fewer than fifteen employees working in Colorado, all of whom work only remotely, then, through July 1, 2029, the employer is only required to provide notice of remote job opportunities. The department of labor and employment shall promulgate rules for temporary, interim, or acting job opportunities that necessitate immediate hire. (2) An employer must in good faith disclose the following in the notification of each job opportunity: (a) The hourly or salary compensation or the range of the hourly or salary compensation; (b) A general description of the benefits and other compensation applicable to the job opportunity; and (c) The date the application window is anticipated to close.

## Source

- https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-8-labor-and-industry/co-rev-st-sect-8-5-201.html

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-02-15.
Part of [State pay transparency laws — salary range disclosure requirements](https://referencesource.org/state-pay-transparency-salary-range-disclosure/).