Broadcast Technicians in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,039
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$11,891
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,366
Connecticut costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Connecticut — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$58,930
Kept after tax
$47,039
Worth in national money
$45,366
State rank
14
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for broadcast technicians is strong here. Connecticut's middle earner gets $58,930, putting the state 14 of 47 — about 1.07% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 295 of 482 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $58,930 the take-home is $47,039; in national-average money that behaves like $45,366. The average comes to $66,970, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For broadcast technicians, Connecticut sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $58,930, ranking 14 of 47 and running about 1.07% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Broadcast technicians ranks 295 of 482 occupations in Connecticut by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for broadcast technicians in Connecticut, on $58,930, is $47,039; deflated by the state's price level, $45,366. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $66,970 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Broadcast Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,930 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,490 |
| This salary | $58,930 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Connecticut | $47,039 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,530 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,605 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $55,830 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,778 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Connecticut earn less than $58,930. The published range is $45,130 up to $102,490, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $47,039 take-home in Connecticut comes from $58,930. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 295 of 482.
- One number stands for prices across all of Connecticut, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $45,366, the adjusted value of that $58,930 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 295 of 482 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for broadcast technicians in Connecticut the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,130 to $102,490. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $47,039, from $58,930, assumes a single Connecticut filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 295 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 47 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Connecticut, so $45,366 — the adjusted value of that $58,930 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 295 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $66,970, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $45,130, the highest tenth $102,490, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $45,366 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Connecticut's own levy, $47,039 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Connecticut is $66,970. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($45,130) and the ninetieth ($102,490) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Connecticut's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $45,366 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $47,039 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Connecticut income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.