What’s behind the revisions to Colorado’s job growth numbers

Tamara Chuang

Business/Technology Reporter

Like clockwork, midway through the state’s monthly jobs report for July, there is the usual note: “estimates were revised” for the prior month.

The explanation was, as always, also included. In June, there were fewer jobs than originally estimated due to “additional responses from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates,” according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment’s July employment report .

Sometimes the revision adds jobs. But lately, it’s been a reduction. June’s numbers were lower than first reported. The state had lost 2,700 jobs, not 1,500.

That’s not great news for the state, of course, but at least in July, employers added 3,700 nonfarm payroll jobs — a number that will likely get revis