Dental Assistants in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,482
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$11,368
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,864
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
$56,850
Kept after tax
$45,482
Worth in national money
$43,864
State rank
10
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Connecticut pays dental assistants a middle wage of $56,850, ranking 10 of 50 states and sitting about 18.27% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 314 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 $56,850 the take-home is $45,482; in national-average money that behaves like $43,864. The average lands at $53,970, below the middle of the range.
- Connecticut's median for dental assistants is $56,850, about 18.27% above the national figure and 10 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Dental assistants ranks 314 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 dental assistants in Connecticut, on $56,850, is $45,482; deflated by the state's price level, $43,864. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $53,970 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Dental Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,900 |
| This salary | $56,850 |
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 | $45,482 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,859 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,386 |
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 | $53,892 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,514 |
| 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 dental assistants in Connecticut earn under $56,850 and half over. The published range runs $38,630 at the tenth percentile to $60,900 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Connecticut the take-home figure of $45,482, from $56,850, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 314 of 482 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $43,864 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 314.
- Figures are distribution medians for dental assistants in Connecticut, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,630 to $60,900; 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.
- Take-home for Connecticut is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $45,482 from $56,850. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 314 of 482 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $43,864, worked from $56,850, 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 314 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 $53,970, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $38,630 at the tenth percentile, $60,900 at the ninetieth.
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 $43,864 rather than its face figure.
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, $45,482 remains.
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.
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 $53,970. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($38,630 to $60,900) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Connecticut rather than a national figure.
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 $43,864 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 $45,482 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.