Child, Family, and School Social Workers in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,792
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$18,178
23.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,629
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
$78,970
Kept after tax
$60,792
Worth in national money
$58,629
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Connecticut is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $78,970, which ranks 1 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 32.61% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 164 of 482 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $78,970, tax leaves $60,792 — and because Connecticut is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $58,629 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $80,180, since top earners drag the number up.
- Connecticut ranks 1 of 51 states publishing a median for child, family, and school social workers, at $78,970 — about 32.61% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Child, family, and school social workers ranks 164 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.
- After tax, $60,792 remains from the Connecticut median of $78,970 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $58,629 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $80,180 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Child, Family, and School Social Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,980 |
| This salary | $78,970 |
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 | $60,792 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,385 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,628 |
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 | $73,862 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,537 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $78,970 as a midpoint for Connecticut, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $48,660 and the ninetieth is $109,980 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Connecticut's $60,792, worked from $78,970. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 164 of 482.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,629 uses one figure for the whole of Connecticut. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 482 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 164.
- The Connecticut median of $78,970 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $48,660 to $109,980. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Connecticut take-home of $60,792, on $78,970 for work ranking 164 of 482 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 164 of 482 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,629, worked from $78,970, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Connecticut address, on work sitting at 164 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $48,660, the highest tenth $109,980, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Connecticut costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $58,629 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Connecticut adds its own income tax on top — which is why $60,792 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($48,660) and the ninetieth ($109,980) 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 $58,629 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 $60,792 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.