2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

General and Operations Managers

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT metropolitan area. Estimated employment 13,370.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-1021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

Drag the marker, or type a figure
$148,080 · 50th
$71,30010th
$99,12025th
$148,08050th
$207,16075th
$295,60090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Hartford earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$148,080 in Hartford buys what $144,100 buys across the country as a whole.

Hartford's regional price parity is 102.7 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Connecticut

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Hartford
Hartford This page$148,080$144,100102.7
Bridgeport$137,230$128,400106.9−10.9%
New Haven$134,450$128,600104.6−10.8%
Waterbury$130,900$131,20099.8−9.0%
Norwich$126,870$126,300100.4−12.4%

Price parity and difference against Hartford are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employment
13,370 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-1021, General and Operations Managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as general-and-operations-managers.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.