Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,826
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$17,654
22.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,697
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
$77,480
Kept after tax
$59,826
Worth in national money
$57,697
State rank
6
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Connecticut's middle earner gets $77,480, putting the state 6 of 50 — about 45.26% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 482 occupations Connecticut reports figures for, this is number 184.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $77,480 the take-home is $59,826; in national-average money that behaves like $57,697. The average lands at $77,210, below the middle of the range.
- For paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators, Connecticut sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $77,480, ranking 6 of 50 and running about 45.26% 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.
- In Connecticut's occupational distribution, paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators sits at 184 of 482 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators in Connecticut, on $77,480, is $59,826; deflated by the state's price level, $57,697. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $77,210 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,480 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,120 |
| This salary | $77,480 |
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 | $59,826 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,337 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,481 |
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 | $72,489 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,334 |
| 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 paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators in Connecticut earn under $77,480 and half over. The published range runs $60,400 at the tenth percentile to $101,120 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $59,826 take-home in Connecticut comes from $77,480. 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 184 of 482.
- Two cautions on $57,697, the adjusted value of that $77,480 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 184 of 482 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators in Connecticut, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $60,400 to $101,120; 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 $59,826, from $77,480, 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 184 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 50 for it.
- This $57,697 adjusted figure, worked from $77,480, 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 184 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 184 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $60,400 and the top tenth $101,120, so most people doing this work in Connecticut sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Connecticut costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $57,697 rather than its face figure.
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, $59,826 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($60,400 to $101,120) 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 $57,697 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 $59,826 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.