Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT moved from $59,270 in May 2024 to $59,940 in May 2025 (+1.1%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT sits -2.0 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education publishes $96,030 here versus $64,370 nationally (+49.2%; 2,490metro-area jobs). Next is General and Operations Managers at $148,080 locally versus $105,770 nationally (+40.0%).

  1. Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$96,030 in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT sits 49.2% above the national Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $64,370 (2,490 published local jobs).
  2. General and Operations Managers$148,080 in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT sits 40.0% above the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (13,370 published local jobs).
  3. Child, Family, and School Social Workers$79,920 in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT sits 34.2% above the national Child, Family, and School Social Workers median of $59,550 (2,200 published local jobs).
  4. Bus Drivers, School$61,560 in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT sits 28.5% above the national Bus Drivers, School median of $47,920 (2,680 published local jobs).

Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 25540 · Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT $76K mean

MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL

  • MEAN-MEGA #14/528
  • RPP-MID 102.7
  • OCC-MOST 575 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Cardiologists · $437K
  • EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
  • TREND-INLINE -2.0 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Durham-Chapel Hi…
  • BOOK-FULL 558 rows · May 2025

Read with Durham-Chapel Hill, NC ($7 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers

Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.

Published-row mean neighbourhood around Hartford-West Hartford-East…

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KHartford-West Hartfo… · this MSA: $76KHartford-West Hartfo… · this…$76KDurham-Chapel Hill, NC · near: $76KDurham-Chapel Hill, NC · near$76KLos Angeles-Long Bea… · near: $76KLos Angeles-Long Bea… · near$76KSacramento-Roseville… · near: $76KSacramento-Roseville… · near$76KPortland-Vancouver-H… · near: $77KPortland-Vancouver-H… · near$77KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Hartford-West Hartfo… · this MSA $76K
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC · near $76K
Los Angeles-Long Bea… · near $76K
Sacramento-Roseville… · near $76K
Portland-Vancouver-H… · near $77K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT's top-pay list

Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Financial Managers 7,540 jobs · $170,310
  2. 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 4,200 jobs · $171,350
  3. 3. Lawyers 3,880 jobs · $157,200
  4. 4. Sales Managers 3,020 jobs · $161,410
  5. 5. Managers, All Other 2,620 jobs · $163,730
  6. 6. Architectural and Engineering Managers 2,530 jobs · $174,440
  7. 7. Marketing Managers 1,860 jobs · $163,210
  8. 8. Physicians, All Other 1,410 jobs · $222,820
  9. 9. Human Resources Managers 1,130 jobs · $158,180
  10. 10. Actuaries 960 jobs · $166,800
  11. 11. Computer Network Architects 690 jobs · $159,720
  12. 12. General Internal Medicine Physicians 510 jobs · $179,390
  13. 13. Chief Executives 470 jobs · $254,180
  14. 14. Pediatricians, General 470 jobs · $211,230
  15. 15. Psychiatrists 270 jobs · $280,370
  16. 16. Emergency Medicine Physicians 250 jobs · $418,940
  17. 17. Nurse Anesthetists 230 jobs · $231,800
  18. 18. Natural Sciences Managers 220 jobs · $196,930

Occupations Tracked

575

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$76,459

employment-weighted, 558 complete rows

Top Salary

$436,510

Cardiologists

Cost of Living

102.7

3% above US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $76,459 by the metro RPP gives $74,416 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Cardiologists $436,510
2 Emergency Medicine Physicians $418,940
3 Psychiatrists $280,370
4 Chief Executives $254,180
5 Nurse Anesthetists $231,800
6 Physicians, All Other $222,820
7 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates $217,760
8 Commercial Pilots $211,350
9 Pediatricians, General $211,230
10 Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers $199,870
11 Natural Sciences Managers $196,930
12 Podiatrists $187,790
13 General Internal Medicine Physicians $179,390
14 Neurologists $178,920
15 Architectural and Engineering Managers $174,440
16 Computer and Information Systems Managers $171,350
17 Financial Managers $170,310
18 Actuaries $166,800
19 Managers, All Other $163,730
20 Marketing Managers $163,210
21 Compensation and Benefits Managers $162,480
22 Sales Managers $161,410
23 Computer Network Architects $159,720
24 Human Resources Managers $158,180
25 Lawyers $157,200

Lowest Paying Jobs in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

Other BLS Wage Areas in CT

Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.

Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale

Two OEWS peer sets outside CT. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($76,459 here) and summed published employment.

Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT?
Across the 558 occupation rows for Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $76,459/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 575 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $209,468, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Hartford-West Hartford-East…?
Cardiologists holds the highest published median in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT at $436,510/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Emergency Medicine Physicians at $418,940/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT?
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT has a Regional Price Parity of 102.7, meaning prices are 3% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $76,459 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $74,416.
Where does BLS salary data for Hartford-West Hartford-East… come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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