Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,261
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$5,519
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,220
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
$34,780
Kept after tax
$29,261
Worth in national money
$28,220
State rank
45
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Connecticut. The middle earner gets $34,780. That is 45 of 50 states, and about 9.19% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 482 occupations Connecticut publishes, this job lands at 478. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $34,780, tax leaves $29,261 — and because Connecticut is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $28,220 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $37,180, since top earners drag the number up.
- For meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers, Connecticut sits in the lower band at $34,780, ranking 45 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 9.19%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Connecticut, this work ranks 478 of 482 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After tax, $29,261 remains from the Connecticut median of $34,780 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $28,220 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $37,180 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $34,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $44,530 |
| This salary | $34,780 |
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 | $29,261 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,126 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,782 |
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 | $33,703 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,364 |
| 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 meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers in Connecticut earn under $34,780 and half over. The published range runs $34,010 at the tenth percentile to $44,530 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Connecticut's $29,261, worked from $34,780. 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 478 of 482.
- Two cautions on $28,220, the adjusted value of that $34,780 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 478 of 482 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers in Connecticut, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,010 to $44,530; 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.
- The Connecticut take-home of $29,261, on $34,780 for work ranking 478 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 478 of 482 in the state.
- This $28,220 adjusted figure, worked from $34,780, 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 478 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 478 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $37,180, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $34,010 at the bottom tenth to $44,530 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 $28,220 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, $29,261 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 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 $37,180. 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 ($34,010 to $44,530) 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 $28,220 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 $29,261 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.