Salaries of service jobs now higher than average

For the first time, Boulder County service industry jobs in 1996 paid higher than the county’s average salary, according to a University of Colorado economist.

Not only that, but almost one-third of all Boulder County jobs are in the service sector, said Richard Wobbekind, a CU economics professor and director of the business research division at the Graduate School of Business Administration.

Almost 45,000 people, or about one-third of all county residents, work at service jobs with an average wage of $32,628, Wobbekind said in an interview after a presentation of…