Emergency Management Directors in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$83,040
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$30,340
26.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,086
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
$113,380
Kept after tax
$83,040
Worth in national money
$80,086
State rank
8
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Connecticut pays this job a middle wage of $113,380, ranking 8 of 47 states and sitting about 21.48% above the national middle.
- Within Connecticut this is well-paid work. Of 482 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 54 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $113,380, tax leaves $83,040 — and because Connecticut is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $80,086 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $118,870, since top earners drag the number up.
- Connecticut's median for emergency management directors is $113,380, about 21.48% above the national figure and 8 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Connecticut publishes a median for, emergency management directors sits 54 of 482 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After tax, $83,040 remains from the Connecticut median of $113,380 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $80,086 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $118,870 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Emergency Management Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $74,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $113,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $174,880 |
| This salary | $113,380 |
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 | $83,040 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $88,593 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,083 |
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 | $105,487 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,309 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Connecticut earn less than $113,380. The published range is $74,880 up to $174,880, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Connecticut's $83,040, worked from $113,380. 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 54 of 482.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $80,086 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 54.
- Reported values are medians; for emergency management directors in Connecticut the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $74,880 to $174,880. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Connecticut take-home of $83,040, on $113,380 for work ranking 54 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 54 of 482 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $80,086, worked from $113,380, 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 54 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 $118,870, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $74,880 and the top tenth $174,880 — 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 $80,086 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, $83,040 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 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 $118,870. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($74,880) and the ninetieth ($174,880) 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 $80,086 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 $83,040 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.