Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$72,964
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$24,776
25.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,368
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
$97,740
Kept after tax
$72,964
Worth in national money
$70,368
State rank
28
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Connecticut sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $97,740, ranking 28 of 46 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 482 occupations Connecticut reports, this job comes in at 99 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $97,740 the take-home is $72,964; in national-average money that behaves like $70,368. The average comes to $98,740, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Connecticut occupies the middle band for software quality assurance analysts and testers: a median of $97,740, ranking 28 of 46. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Software quality assurance analysts and testers ranks 99 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 software quality assurance analysts and testers in Connecticut, on $97,740, is $72,964; deflated by the state's price level, $70,368. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $98,740 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $153,990 |
| This salary | $97,740 |
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 | $72,964 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,590 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,477 |
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 | $91,165 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,091 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $97,740 as a midpoint for Connecticut, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,080 and the ninetieth is $153,990 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Connecticut the take-home figure of $72,964, from $97,740, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 99 of 482 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Connecticut, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $70,368, the adjusted value of that $97,740 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 99 of 482 in the state.
- The Connecticut median of $97,740 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,080 to $153,990. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Connecticut is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $72,964 from $97,740. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 99 of 482 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Connecticut, so $70,368 — the adjusted value of that $97,740 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 99 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $46,080 at the bottom tenth to $153,990 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $70,368 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, $72,964 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($46,080) and the ninetieth ($153,990) 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 $70,368 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 $72,964 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.