Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$109,932
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$46,308
29.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$106,021
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
$156,240
Kept after tax
$109,932
Worth in national money
$106,021
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Connecticut's middle earner gets $156,240, putting the state 3 of 51 — about 47.58% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 482 occupations Connecticut reports, this job comes in at 18 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $156,240 the take-home is $109,932; in national-average money that behaves like $106,021. The average lands at $148,040, below the middle of the range.
- For education administrators, kindergarten through secondary, Connecticut sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $156,240, ranking 3 of 51 and running about 47.58% 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.
- Education administrators, kindergarten through secondary ranks 18 of 482 occupations by median in Connecticut, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for education administrators, kindergarten through secondary in Connecticut, on $156,240, is $109,932; deflated by the state's price level, $106,021. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $148,040 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $86,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $156,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $194,310 |
| This salary | $156,240 |
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 | $109,932 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $118,056 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$15,468 |
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 | $144,354 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$21,991 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $156,240 as a midpoint for Connecticut, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $86,840 and the ninetieth is $194,310 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Connecticut the take-home figure of $109,932, from $156,240, 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 18 of 482 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $106,021, the adjusted value of that $156,240 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Connecticut. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 18 of 482 locally.
- The Connecticut median of $156,240 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $86,840 to $194,310. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Connecticut is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $109,932 from $156,240. 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 18 of 482 locally.
- This $106,021 adjusted figure, worked from $156,240, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 18 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 18 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $148,040 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $86,840 at the tenth percentile, $194,310 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 $106,021 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Connecticut then takes its own share, leaving $109,932.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $148,040. 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 ($86,840 to $194,310) 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 $106,021 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 $109,932 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.