Data Scientists in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$91,289
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$35,051
27.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$88,041
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
$126,340
Kept after tax
$91,289
Worth in national money
$88,041
State rank
11
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Connecticut is one of the better-paying states for data scientists. The middle earner takes $126,340, which ranks 11 of 49 states with published figures. That is about 5.08% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Connecticut. It ranks 37 out of 482 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $126,340 the take-home is $91,289; in national-average money that behaves like $88,041. The average comes to $129,850, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Connecticut ranks 11 of 49 states publishing a median for data scientists, at $126,340 — about 5.08% 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.
- Within Connecticut, data scientists ranks 37 of 482 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for data scientists in Connecticut, on $126,340, is $91,289; deflated by the state's price level, $88,041. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $129,850 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Data Scientists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $75,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $126,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $204,680 |
| This salary | $126,340 |
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 | $91,289 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $97,619 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$12,416 |
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 | $117,212 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$17,280 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $126,340 as a midpoint for Connecticut, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $75,700 and the ninetieth is $204,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $91,289 take-home in Connecticut comes from $126,340. 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 37 of 482.
- One number stands for prices across all of Connecticut, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $88,041, the adjusted value of that $126,340 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 37 of 482 in the state.
- The Connecticut median of $126,340 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $75,700 to $204,680. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $91,289, from $126,340, 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 37 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Connecticut, so $88,041 — the adjusted value of that $126,340 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 37 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $75,700 and the top tenth $204,680 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $88,041 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, $91,289 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($75,700) and the ninetieth ($204,680) 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 $88,041 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 $91,289 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.