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Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,420.

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

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$41,910 · 50th
$35,06010th
$36,84025th
$41,91050th
$46,35075th
$56,88090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$41,910 in Norwich buys what $41,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Norwich's regional price parity is 100.4 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. 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. Norwich
New Haven$45,420$43,400104.6+4.1%
Hartford$44,000$42,800102.7+2.6%
Bridgeport$43,550$40,800106.9−2.3%
Norwich This page$41,910$41,700100.4
Waterbury$39,500$39,60099.8−5.1%

Price parity and difference against Norwich 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
1,420 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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