Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,199
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$16,231
22.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,164
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
$73,430
Kept after tax
$57,199
Worth in national money
$55,164
State rank
10
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Connecticut is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $73,430, which ranks 10 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 13.06% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 210 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 $73,430, tax leaves $57,199 — and because Connecticut is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $55,164 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $73,890, since top earners drag the number up.
- Connecticut ranks 10 of 50 states publishing a median for civil engineering technologists and technicians, at $73,430 — about 13.06% 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.
- Civil engineering technologists and technicians ranks 210 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, $57,199 remains from the Connecticut median of $73,430 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $55,164 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $73,890 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,090 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,430 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,420 |
| This salary | $73,430 |
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 | $57,199 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,488 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,082 |
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 | $68,755 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,428 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of civil engineering technologists and technicians in Connecticut earn under $73,430 and half over. The published range runs $39,090 at the tenth percentile to $104,420 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Connecticut's $57,199, worked from $73,430. 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 210 of 482.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $55,164 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 210.
- Figures are distribution medians for civil engineering technologists and technicians in Connecticut, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,090 to $104,420; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Connecticut take-home of $57,199, on $73,430 for work ranking 210 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 210 of 482 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $55,164, worked from $73,430, 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 210 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $39,090, the highest tenth $104,420, 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 $55,164 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 $57,199 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($39,090) and the ninetieth ($104,420) 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 $55,164 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 $57,199 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.