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Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metropolitan area. Estimated employment 4,290.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 53-7062
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$43,550 · 50th
$36,16010th
$37,88025th
$43,55050th
$47,30075th
$56,28090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$43,550 in Bridgeport buys what $40,800 buys across the country as a whole.

Bridgeport's regional price parity is 106.9 — 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. Bridgeport
New Haven$45,420$43,400104.6+6.6%
Hartford$44,000$42,800102.7+5.1%
Bridgeport This page$43,550$40,800106.9
Norwich$41,910$41,700100.4+2.4%
Waterbury$39,500$39,60099.8−2.9%

Price parity and difference against Bridgeport 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
4,290 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 53-7062, Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand. Mapped to our taxonomy as laborers-and-freight-stock-and-material-movers-hand.

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