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Connecticut · 2025 pay

How much do Department of Correction (Connecticut) employees make?

$92,336typical pay for full-year employees in 2025

$74,991 – $114,954what most people earned

Counting everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers, typical pay was $88,996.

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

Common jobs: CorrectionofficerCorrectionallieutenantCorrectionalcounselor

✓ 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.

$69,234

$88,975

$112,232

$425,974

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 $69,819 in 2016 to $92,336 in 2025 (+32%).

What changed since 2024

  • +4.9%Typical pay for full-year employees went up from $88,048 to $92,336.
  • +4.5%Typical raise for the 5,955 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 33% got a raise of 10% or more.
  • 450 new450 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 451 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
  • +32%Since 2016, typical pay for full-year employees has gone from $69,819 to $92,336, while the number of people paid went up from 6,122 to 6,405.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Department of Correction (Connecticut)

10years of
official data
2016–2025
Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay$68,270
Overtime$16,337
Extra pay$4,368
Total for the year$88,975

Average of the 320 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

Worth knowing about pay at Department of Correction

What stands out in the payroll data, checked against the rest of our data before it is shown.

  • +35%

    Since 2016, total pay at Department of Correction went up 35% while the number of people paid went up 5%.

    Counts everyone paid during each year. Not adjusted for inflation.

  • 22¢

    Of every dollar Department of Correction paid in 2025, about 22 cents was overtime.

    Usual among the 8 other police, sheriff and corrections employers of a similar size in our data: about 16 cents. 3rd highest of 9.

    The data shows what was paid, not why. Overtime is pay for hours beyond the regular schedule.

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
Correctionofficer3,561$90,913$87,676$70k – $110k▲ 5.6%
Correctionallieutenant307$106,749$106,523$94k – $123k▲ 6.7%
Correctionalcounselor213$77,836$77,779$73k – $85k▲ 1.4%
Licensedpracticalnurse155$99,184$93,238$71k – $120k▲ 2.3%
Nurse Correctional facility148$114,818$109,833$91k – $150k▲ 13.1%
Paroleofficer 2123$109,879$109,903$101k – $120k▲ 2.5%
Correctional Captain113$112,781$112,456$103k – $125k▲ 1.3%
Correctionofficercadet87$4,652$4,652$4k – $5k▲ 47.8%
Headnursecorrectionalfacility77$147,696$143,116$119k – $181k▼ 5.9%
Stateschoolteacher 12month77$92,046$87,696$73k – $110k▲ 5.1%
Corrfoodsvcssupv 275$87,534$87,096$77k – $100k▲ 4.0%
Corrcounslrsupv66$108,827$108,561$102k – $114k▲ 2.8%
Corriden and Rcrdspec 159$82,568$82,548$70k – $91k▲ 1.1%
Professionalcounselor52$104,475$102,963$71k – $117k▲ 2.8%
Rn Perdiem51$77,205$69,904$36k – $94k▲ 21.6%
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How many people earn what

  • Under $10k291
  • $10k – $30k367
  • $30k – $50k313
  • $50k – $70k669
  • $70k – $90k1,636
  • $90k – $110k1,389
  • $110k – $150k1,333
  • $150k or more407

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

Pay by department

DepartmentPeopleTypical pay
Doc Inmate Medical Services783$105,851
Central Office771$86,289
Macdougall/wrsmu717$88,321
Cheshire Correctionl Inst504$89,500
York Correctional Institution486$91,235
Osborn Correctionl Inst423$85,595
Carl Robinson365$85,480
Hartford Correctional Center350$90,817
Corrigan/radgowski346$84,043
Garner Correctionl Inst346$85,646
Manson Youth Institution305$100,223
Bridgeport Correctional Cntr295$84,370

Common questions

How much does a Department of Correction (Connecticut) employee make?

Full-year employees were typically paid $92,336 in 2025; most earned between $74,991 and $114,954. Counting all 6,405 people paid during the year, typical pay was $88,996.

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 (72.9% of all pay), overtime (22.1%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (5.0%).

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; 33 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals