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Connecticut · 2025 pay

How much do Connecticut Airport Authority (Operations) employees make?

$99,994typical pay for full-year employees in 2025

$83,762 – $125,283what most people earned

Counting everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers, typical pay was $95,219.

CT Office of the State Comptroller publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.

Common jobs: Ct Airport Auth EmplTranspmntr 2Airpcrshrescfireftr

✓ Official data from CT Office of the State ComptrollerMatches the agency's latest releaseosc.ct.gov ↗

How is pay spread across workers?

A year of pay for a lower-paid, typical and higher-paid worker (counting everyone paid), and the top earner, split into regular pay, overtime and extra pay.

$80,598

$95,664

$123,481

$680,465

Lower-paid workerearns more than 1 in 4 coworkers

Typical workerright in the middle

Higher-paid workerearns more than 3 in 4 coworkers

Highest paidone person

Regular payOvertimeExtra pay

Is pay going up?

Yes. Typical pay for full-year employees went from $82,315 in 2016 to $99,994 in 2025 (+21%).

What changed since 2024

  • +2.1%Typical pay for full-year employees went up from $97,982 to $99,994.
  • +4.5%Typical raise for the 167 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 28% got a raise of 10% or more.
  • 11 new11 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 15 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
  • +21%Since 2016, typical pay for full-year employees has gone from $82,315 to $99,994, while the number of people paid went up from 165 to 178.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Connecticut Airport Authority (Operations)

10years of
official data
2016–2025
Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay$84,325
Overtime$10,011
Extra pay$1,327
Total for the year$95,664

Average of the 9 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.

Official source: Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller, osc.ct.gov ↗
Matches the agency's latest release

Pay by job

Jobs held by 5 or more people in 2025. "Full-year" is typical pay for people employed all year (shown when 5 or more); "Everyone" includes part-year and seasonal workers.

JobPeopleFull-yearEveryoneMost earnSince 2024
Ct Airport Auth Empl47$146,638$146,638$115k – $171k▲ 3.5%
Transpmntr 226$78,923$78,142$75k – $80k▲ 13.8%
Airpcrshrescfireftr24$92,590$92,590$91k – $95k▲ 4.4%
Airportoperationsspecialist8$131,141$129,056$125k – $144k▲ 5.1%
Airport Mt Crew Leader7$98,617$98,617$98k – $101knew
Qcw Elecl7$88,991$88,561$87k – $100k▲ 7.5%
Airportcrshrescfirecapt Ctapt6$120,989$114,088$104k – $121k▼ 3.0%

How many people earn what

  • Under $10k0
  • $10k – $30k7
  • $30k – $50k4
  • $50k – $70k10
  • $70k – $90k49
  • $90k – $110k42
  • $110k – $150k40
  • $150k or more26

Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.

Pay by department

DepartmentPeopleTypical pay
Connecticut Airport Authority178$95,219

Common questions

How much does a Connecticut Airport Authority (Operations) employee make?

Full-year employees were typically paid $99,994 in 2025; most earned between $83,762 and $125,283. Counting all 178 people paid during the year, typical pay was $95,219.

Who counts as a full-year employee?

"Employed all year" means the Comptroller's data shows the person was hired before January 1 (or was on the previous year's payroll) and has no termination date during the year.

Does this include benefits like health insurance or pension?

No. It is the pay people received: regular salary or wages (90.1% of all pay), overtime (7.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (2.9%).

Where does this data come from, and when is it updated?

From Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller (osc.ct.gov). Our figures match the agency's latest release; the agency updates it every pay period.

"Typical pay" is the median: half earn more, half earn less. "Most earn" is the middle half of workers. "Employed all year" means the Comptroller's data shows the person was hired before January 1 (or was on the previous year's payroll) and has no termination date during the year. Hire and end dates are used only to work this out; we don't store or publish them. Figures are calculated by PublicPayData from the official dataset; 1 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals