Physician Assistants in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$99,719
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$40,141
28.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$96,171
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
$139,860
Kept after tax
$99,719
Worth in national money
$96,171
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for physician assistants is strong here. Connecticut's middle earner gets $139,860, putting the state 15 of 51 — about 2.93% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 482 occupations Connecticut reports, physician assistants comes in at 25 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $139,860 the take-home is $99,719; in national-average money that behaves like $96,171. The average comes to $146,930, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For physician assistants, Connecticut sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $139,860, ranking 15 of 51 and running about 2.93% 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.
- Physician assistants ranks 25 of 482 occupations by median in Connecticut, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for physician assistants in Connecticut, on $139,860, is $99,719; deflated by the state's price level, $96,171. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $146,930 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Physician Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $106,380 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $139,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $180,900 |
| This salary | $139,860 |
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 | $99,719 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $106,860 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$13,796 |
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 | $129,411 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$19,570 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $139,860 as a midpoint for Connecticut, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $106,380 and the ninetieth is $180,900 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $99,719 take-home in Connecticut comes from $139,860. 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 25 of 482.
- One number stands for prices across all of Connecticut, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $96,171, the adjusted value of that $139,860 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 25 of 482 in the state.
- The Connecticut median of $139,860 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $106,380 to $180,900. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $99,719, from $139,860, 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 25 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Connecticut, so $96,171 — the adjusted value of that $139,860 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 25 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $146,930 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $106,380 at the tenth percentile, $180,900 at the ninetieth.
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 $96,171 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 $99,719 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 $146,930. 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 ($106,380 to $180,900) 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 $96,171 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 $99,719 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.