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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Noncompetes Limited in Colorado to 'Highly Compensated' Workers - Bloomberg Law

Colorado banned employee noncompete clauses for workers making less than six figures annually, under legislation Gov. Jared Polis (D) signed into law Wednesday.

The measure, HB 22-1317, puts Colorado among the states with the strictest income-based limits on workplace noncompete agreements. At least 10 other states have passed laws in the last six years to ban noncompetes for low-wage workers, although the income thresholds in those laws vary widely from about $30,000 of annual income in New Hampshire to $100,000 or more in Washington state, Oregon, and now Colorado.

  • Colorado law already limited the use of noncompetes to executives, ...

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