Connecticut · 2025 pay
How much do Economic and Community Development (Connecticut) employees make?
$92,156typical pay for full-year employees in 2025
$71,464 – $120,135what most people earned
Counting everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers, typical pay was $88,605.
CT Office of the State Comptroller publishes pay by position without employee names, so there is no name search here.
Common jobs: SeasonalworkerEcdagentStateprgmgr
✓ 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.
$55,251
$87,840
$118,895
$450,164
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 $85,521 in 2016 to $92,156 in 2025 (+8%).
What changed since 2024
- −2.7%Typical pay for full-year employees went down from $94,752 to $92,156.
- +4.7%Typical raise for the 164 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 28% got a raise of 10% or more.
- 25 new25 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 19 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
- +8%Since 2016, typical pay for full-year employees has gone from $85,521 to $92,156, while the number of people paid went up from 122 to 189.
The agency updates it every pay period.
Pay slip · 2025
A typical worker's year
Economic and Community Development (Connecticut)
official data
2016–2025
| Regular pay | $87,218 |
|---|---|
| Overtime | $451 |
| Extra pay | $172 |
| Total for the year | $87,840 |
Average of the 10 workers in the middle of the pay range. Does not include benefits.
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.
| Job | People | Full-year | Everyone | Most earn | Since 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seasonalworker | 18 | $11,901 | $11,987 | $5k – $18k | ▲ 6.9% |
| Ecdagent | 15 | $88,696 | $88,696 | $59k – $92k | ▲ 1.3% |
| Stateprgmgr | 11 | $100,567 | $96,946 | $91k – $124k | ▲ 0.9% |
| Cmtydevspec | 9 | $105,861 | $105,861 | $96k – $119k | ▲ 8.2% |
| Executiveassistant 2 | 7 | $148,668 | $138,639 | $108k – $155k | ▲ 4.4% |
| Administrativeassistant | 7 | $71,185 | $71,185 | $71k – $82k | ▲ 6.1% |
| Accountant | 6 | $82,280 | $82,280 | $82k – $85k | ▲ 3.8% |
| Museumcurator 1 | 5 | $90,877 | $90,877 | $84k – $96k | ▲ 7.6% |
| Executivesecretary | 5 | – | $52,025 | $24k – $57k | new |
| Researchanalyst | 5 | – | $38,698 | $32k – $77k | new |
How many people earn what
- Under $10k14
- $10k – $30k17
- $30k – $50k11
- $50k – $70k19
- $70k – $90k39
- $90k – $110k29
- $110k – $150k46
- $150k or more14
Includes part-time and seasonal workers, which is why many earn under $10k.
Pay by department
| Department | People | Typical pay |
|---|---|---|
| Economic and Community Dev | 189 | $88,605 |
Highest paid at Economic and Community Development in 2025
- 1Vincent F LeeEcdagent$450,164▲ $337,077 vs 2024
- 2Daniel O'KeefeCommrofecon and Comdev$213,176▲ $1,699 vs 2024
- 3Kelli-Marie VallieresChiefworkforceofficer$212,908▲ $8,914 vs 2024
- 4Kathryn J DamatoExecutiveassistant 2$206,689▲ $198,966 vs 2024
- 5Paul O RobertsonDptycmmrofdecd$189,060▲ $7,915 vs 2024
- 6Matthew J PuglieseDptycmmrofdecd$183,554▲ $9,578 vs 2024
- 7James W. WatsonDiroflegregs and Comms$179,877▲ $7,528 vs 2024
- 8Brandon L McgeeExecdirsocequitycouncil$169,209▲ $118,635 vs 2024
- 9George NorfleetBusiness Development Admin$164,596▲ $6,887 vs 2024
- 10Sheila S. HummelComtdevasstadmin$155,448▲ $2,192 vs 2024
Common questions
How much does a Economic and Community Development (Connecticut) employee make?
Full-year employees were typically paid $92,156 in 2025; most earned between $71,464 and $120,135. Counting all 189 people paid during the year, typical pay was $88,605.
Why do so many people earn very little?
The list includes everyone who got a paycheck during the year: part-time, seasonal and short-term workers, and people who joined or left partway through. 14 people (7.4%) were paid under $10,000.
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 (99.0% of all pay), overtime (0.1%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (0.8%).
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; 0 records with $0 or negative pay are left out. How we calculate this · Corrections & removals