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Connecticut employee compensation

Source file: Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller — Open Payroll / ingested Jun 18, 2026

In 2024, Connecticut reported 80,000 employees across 61 departments, with a total payroll of $454.1M. The highest-paid distinct record was Viktor Kotlyar (Mental Health & Addiction Service) at $826,747.

Latest year
2024
Total payroll
$454.1M
Departments
61
Employees
80,000
Top record
$826,747

What the records show

Department analytics

Median pay and headcount show where payroll dollars concentrate and which agencies define the jurisdiction’s compensation profile.

Largest departments

The 12 departments employing the most people in 2024. Bar length is headcount. These departments drive most of the payroll and set the overall pay mix.

Highest-paying departments

Departments ranked by median total compensation — the typical employee's pay. High medians usually signal specialized or professional workforces (e.g. medical, legal, or public-safety agencies) rather than across-the-board higher pay.

Compared with the local labor market

Connecticut pay vs. the surrounding job market

Across 19 roles that match a standard occupation, Connecticut’s median base salary runs 3% above the median wage for the same work in Connecticut. 10 of those roles pay above the local median and 9 pay below it.

Roles compared
19
Above local median
10
Below local median
9
Typical gap
+3%

This covers the 88 employees (0% of the workforce) in roles whose job titles map to a standard occupation. Titles that are too generic to match one — broad classification series, and job families the survey reports by academic field — are left out rather than guessed at, so the figure describes the comparable subset, not the entire payroll.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Department index

Open an agency file

Department pages break down pay distributions, common job titles, and the employees behind the latest published payroll.

61 departments

University of Connecticut15,323$1,670
Connecticut Board of Regents13,078$2,229
Uconn Health Center6,782$5,259
Department of Correction6,354$7,256
Judicial Branch4,933$6,311
Department of Transportation4,170$6,561
Mental Health & Addiction Service4,149$7,282
Department of Children and Families3,246$7,255
Department of Development Service2,704$6,212
CT Technician Education and Career Systems2,512$6,024
Department of Social Services2,123$6,232
Department of Emrg Service & Public Prot1,702$9,264
Department of Energy & Environmental Prot.1,438$5,595
Department of Administrative Services1,333$8,170
Department of Motor Vehicles844$5,040
Department of Labor775$5,448
Department of Public Health729$6,738
Department of Revenue Services678$5,441
Division of Criminal Justice586$6,037
Legislative Management517$7,624
Public Defender Services407$5,169
Department of Veterans' Affairs381$4,642
Department of Consumer Protection364$5,967
Aging and Disability Services357$5,952
Office of Policy & Management312$6,879
State Comptroller's Office309$6,697
Attorney General's Office277$7,059
Econ. & Community Development261$6,523
Department of Insurance234$6,785
Connecticut Lottery Corporal226$6,188
CT Airport Authority (Ops)223$7,921
Agricultural Experiment Sta210$4,836
State Department of Education208$11,228
Auditors of Public Accounts194$6,802
Office of the State Treasurer188$8,219
Worker's Compensation Commiss.168$4,888
Department of Banking161$6,314
Human Rights & Opportunities142$5,515
Office of Early Childhood140$7,212
Military Department115$5,971
Department of Agriculture104$4,767
CT Housing & Finance Authority104$7,914
Secretary of the State86$4,788
Chief Medical Examiner's Office79$5,933
Connecticut State Library78$4,653
Teachers' Retirement Board78$4,163
Elections Enforcement74$6,985
CT Innovations Inc58$8,950
Connecticut Green Bank55$6,040
Office of Consumer Counsel52$7,414
Office of Government Accountability52$5,708
Office of Health Strategy52$8,820
Department of Housing48$6,226
Lieutenant Governor's Office35$8,208
Governor's Office31$13,742
Freedom of Information31$7,533
Office of Higher Education26$5,826
Probate Court Administration26$5,884
Off of the Healthcare Advocate26$8,217
Office of State Ethics26$10,367
Paid Family Medical Leave Auth26$9,477