First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,400
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$21,760
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,002
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
$89,160
Kept after tax
$67,400
Worth in national money
$65,002
State rank
15
of 49 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 $89,160, ranking 15 of 49 states and sitting about 14.35% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 125 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 $89,160, tax leaves $67,400 — and because Connecticut is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $65,002 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $91,410, since top earners drag the number up.
- Connecticut's median for first-line supervisors of correctional officers is $89,160, about 14.35% above the national figure and 15 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- First-line supervisors of correctional officers ranks 125 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, $67,400 remains from the Connecticut median of $89,160 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $65,002 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $91,410 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $77,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $89,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $106,390 |
| This salary | $89,160 |
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 | $67,400 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $71,554 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,632 |
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 | $83,256 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,923 |
| 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 $89,160. The published range is $77,750 up to $106,390, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $67,400 take-home in Connecticut comes from $89,160. 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 125 of 482.
- Two cautions on $65,002, the adjusted value of that $89,160 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 125 of 482 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of correctional officers in Connecticut the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $77,750 to $106,390. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $67,400, from $89,160, 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 125 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 49 for it.
- This $65,002 adjusted figure, worked from $89,160, 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 125 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 125 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $77,750 at the bottom tenth to $106,390 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $65,002 of national purchasing power.
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 $67,400 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 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($77,750 to $106,390) 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 $65,002 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 $67,400 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.