New Haven, CT Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in New Haven, CT - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in New Haven, CT moved from $57,600 in May 2024 to $60,060 in May 2025 (+4.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- New Haven, CT sits +1.2 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in New Haven, CT
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive publishes $63,800 here versus $47,540 nationally (+34.2%; 4,780metro-area jobs). Next is General and Operations Managers at $134,450 locally versus $105,770 nationally (+27.1%).
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$63,800 in New Haven, CT sits 34.2% above the national Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive median of $47,540 (4,780 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$134,450 in New Haven, CT sits 27.1% above the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (5,750 published local jobs).
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$79,820 in New Haven, CT sits 24.8% above the national Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education median of $63,970 (2,730 published local jobs).
- Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$62,890 in New Haven, CT sits 24.1% above the national Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks median of $50,670 (2,900 published local jobs).
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for New Haven, CT; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 35300 · New Haven, CT $73K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #25/528
- RPP-MID 104.6
- OCC-MOST 454 occs
- TOP-LEAD Cardiologists · $502K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +1.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Vallejo, CA
- BOOK-FULL 441 rows · May 2025
Read with Vallejo, CA (+$58 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 New Haven, CT
Employment scale inside New Haven, CT's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Lawyers lead published employment inside New Haven, CT's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 2,030 jobs · $166,990
- 2. Lawyers 1,280 jobs · $166,080
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,110 jobs · $169,720
- 4. Sales Managers 1,090 jobs · $160,590
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 920 jobs · $140,880
- 6. Pharmacists 750 jobs · $141,290
- 7. Physician Assistants 740 jobs · $149,960
- 8. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 710 jobs · $160,050
- 9. Architectural and Engineering Managers 550 jobs · $167,080
- 10. Marketing Managers 550 jobs · $162,190
- 11. Human Resources Managers 360 jobs · $153,820
- 12. Natural Sciences Managers 350 jobs · $210,670
- 13. Chief Executives 270 jobs · $311,110
- 14. Psychiatrists 140 jobs · $381,890
- 15. Pediatricians, General 140 jobs · $219,550
- 16. Public Relations Managers 140 jobs · $154,210
- 17. Nurse Anesthetists 120 jobs · $236,960
- 18. Optometrists 90 jobs · $150,640
Occupations Tracked
454
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$73,446
employment-weighted, 441 complete rows
Top Salary
$502,320
Cardiologists
Cost of Living
104.6
5% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in New Haven, CT
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiologists | $502,320 |
| 2 | Psychiatrists | $381,890 |
| 3 | Chief Executives | $311,110 |
| 4 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $277,290 |
| 5 | Family Medicine Physicians | $246,130 |
| 6 | Nurse Anesthetists | $236,960 |
| 7 | Podiatrists | $220,060 |
| 8 | Pediatricians, General | $219,550 |
| 9 | Natural Sciences Managers | $210,670 |
| 10 | Radiologists | $194,570 |
| 11 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $169,720 |
| 12 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $167,080 |
| 13 | Financial Managers | $166,990 |
| 14 | Lawyers | $166,080 |
| 15 | Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary | $163,850 |
| 16 | Marketing Managers | $162,190 |
| 17 | Sales Managers | $160,590 |
| 18 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $160,050 |
| 19 | Public Relations Managers | $154,210 |
| 20 | Human Resources Managers | $153,820 |
| 21 | Optometrists | $150,640 |
| 22 | Physician Assistants | $149,960 |
| 23 | Pharmacists | $141,290 |
| 24 | Actuaries | $141,020 |
| 25 | Nurse Practitioners | $140,880 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in New Haven, CT
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $34,020 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,210 |
| Tour and Travel Guides | $34,530 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $34,540 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $34,720 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $34,760 |
| School Bus Monitors | $34,790 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $34,850 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $35,020 |
| Bakers | $35,040 |
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 ($73,446 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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.
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- Cardiologists leads published medians in New Haven, CT at $502,320/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Cardiologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $73,446 adjusts to about $70,244 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 104.6. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for CT before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
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.