Connecticut · BLS May 2025
Also called restaurant supervisor. SOC 35-1012.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 10,770 first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers working in Connecticut. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal, state and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Connecticut
$52,940A year, or $25.45 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $37,130 | $17.85 |
| 25th percentile | $41,770 | $20.08 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $52,940 | $25.45 |
| 75th percentile | $64,010 | $30.78 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $77,480 | $37.25 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $55,720 | $26.79 |
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A $52,940 salary in Connecticut, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Connecticut sit at 103.6 against a national average of 100, so $52,940 earned here buys what $51,095 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for food service supervisors in Connecticut is $52,940 a year, or $25.45 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $52,940, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $42,772 a year, or roughly $3,564 a month.
That is after federal, state and FICA tax, an effective rate of 19.2%.
Connecticut takes $1,946 of it in state income tax.
Yes. The median in Connecticut is 20.1% above the national median of $44,080.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Connecticut sit at 103.6 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.55 times the median household income of $95,781. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Connecticut run at 103.6 against a national average of 100, with rents at 117, so $52,940 here buys about what $51,095 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $77,480 a year or more, against $37,130 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Connecticut someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 10,770 of these jobs in Connecticut for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 19% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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