Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$84,494
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$31,146
26.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$81,488
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
$115,640
Kept after tax
$84,494
Worth in national money
$81,488
State rank
15
of 45 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 $115,640, ranking 15 of 45 states and sitting about 0.42% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Connecticut. It ranks 50 out of 482 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $115,640 the take-home is $84,494; in national-average money that behaves like $81,488. The average comes to $117,280, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Connecticut's median for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors is $115,640, about 0.42% above the national figure and 15 of 45 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Connecticut, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 50 of 482 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Connecticut, on $115,640, is $84,494; deflated by the state's price level, $81,488. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $117,280 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $76,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $115,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $166,230 |
| This salary | $115,640 |
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 | $84,494 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $90,183 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,316 |
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 | $107,554 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,631 |
| 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 $115,640. The published range is $76,580 up to $166,230, 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 $84,494, worked from $115,640. 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 50 of 482.
- Two cautions on $81,488, the adjusted value of that $115,640 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 50 of 482 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors in Connecticut the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $76,580 to $166,230. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Connecticut take-home of $84,494, on $115,640 for work ranking 50 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 50 of 482 in the state.
- This $81,488 adjusted figure, worked from $115,640, 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 50 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 50 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $76,580 and the top tenth $166,230 — 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 $81,488 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, $84,494 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($76,580) and the ninetieth ($166,230) 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 $81,488 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 $84,494 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.