First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,503
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$19,647
23.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,243
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
$83,150
Kept after tax
$63,503
Worth in national money
$61,243
State rank
2
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Connecticut's middle earner gets $83,150, putting the state 2 of 51 — about 11.69% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 140 among 482 occupations Connecticut publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $83,150, tax leaves $63,503 — and because Connecticut is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $61,243 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $85,810, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of production and operating workers, Connecticut sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $83,150, ranking 2 of 51 and running about 11.69% 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.
- Position 140 of 482 in Connecticut places first-line supervisors of production and operating workers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $63,503 remains from the Connecticut median of $83,150 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $61,243 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $85,810 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $123,060 |
| This salary | $83,150 |
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 | $63,503 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,326 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,040 |
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 | $77,715 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,105 |
| 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 first-line supervisors of production and operating workers in Connecticut earn under $83,150 and half over. The published range runs $49,660 at the tenth percentile to $123,060 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $63,503 take-home in Connecticut comes from $83,150. 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 140 of 482.
- Two cautions on $61,243, the adjusted value of that $83,150 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 140 of 482 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for first-line supervisors of production and operating workers in Connecticut, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $49,660 to $123,060; 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.
- Retained pay of $63,503, from $83,150, 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 140 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 2 of 51 for it.
- This $61,243 adjusted figure, worked from $83,150, 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 140 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 140 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 $85,810, 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 $49,660 and the top tenth $123,060 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Connecticut run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $61,243 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 $63,503 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $85,810. 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 ($49,660) and the ninetieth ($123,060) 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 $61,243 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 $63,503 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.