Connecticut · 2025 pay

How much do Public Defender Services (Connecticut) employees make?

Name: Public Defender Services (Connecticut) employee pay 2025
Creator: PublicPayData

$89,081typical pay for full-year employees in 2025

$5,939 – $117,762what most people earned

Counting everyone paid during 2025, including part-year and seasonal workers, typical pay was $82,624.

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

Common jobs: Dcj/Dpdstranscriptionist Dpdsasstpubdef Dpdsdptyasstpubdef

✓ 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.

$5,101

$82,516

$116,033

$264,493

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 $70,077 in 2016 to $89,081 in 2025 (+27%).

Typical full-year payNumber of people paidTotal payroll

What changed since 2024

+3.7%Typical pay for full-year employees went up from $85,872 to $89,081.
+4.2%Typical raise for the 629 people paid in both 2024 and 2025. About 27% got a raise of 10% or more.
95 new95 people were paid for the first time in 2025, and 66 people paid in 2024 were no longer on the payroll.
+27%Since 2016, typical pay for full-year employees has gone from $70,077 to $89,081, while the number of people paid went up from 656 to 724.

The agency updates it every pay period.

Pay slip · 2025

A typical worker's year

Public Defender Services (Connecticut)

10years of
official data
2016–2025

Average pay of people in the middle of the pay range
Regular pay	$80,623
Overtime	$0
Extra pay	$1,893
Total for the year	$82,516

Average of the 37 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.

Job	People	Full-year	Everyone	Most earn	Since 2024
Dcj/Dpdstranscriptionist	204	$887	$761	$0k – $3k	▲ 37.5%
Dpdsasstpubdef	91	$117,762	$115,834	$113k – $133k	▼ 0.4%
Dpdsdptyasstpubdef	77	$96,936	$93,018	$92k – $105k	▼ 6.4%
Dpdssenasstpubdef	55	$164,637	$163,582	$152k – $177k	▲ 2.4%
Dpdspublicdefendersecii	37	$79,410	$78,527	$66k – $84k	▲ 1.9%
Dpdsinvestigator 2	33	$89,081	$89,081	$78k – $98k	▲ 0.1%
Dpdspublicdefenderseci	33	$52,567	$48,114	$36k – $56k	▼ 11.7%
Dpdssupvasstpubdef	21	$184,746	$183,816	$161k – $186k	▲ 1.5%
Dpdssocialworkeriii	20	$117,829	$117,829	$117k – $119k	▲ 0.7%
Dpdssocwkrii	20	$85,574	$85,574	$81k – $90k	▲ 5.1%
Dpdsinvestigator 3	18	$115,812	$115,812	$108k – $126k	▲ 1.4%
Dpdspublicdefender	13	$236,366	$236,366	$233k – $240k	▲ 2.2%
Dpdsinvestigator 1	13	$73,313	$73,269	$69k – $80k	▼ 0.0%
Temporaryworker Retiree	12	$13,551	$12,198	$7k – $15k	▼ 51.8%
Dpdsfellowshipinternattorney	9	–	$24,123	$24k – $27k	▼ 30.8%
Dpdsparalegal 2	8	$100,100	$100,100	$87k – $104k	▲ 4.1%
Pubdefadminasst	7	$73,547	$73,547	$74k – $91k	▲ 4.3%
Dpdssocwkri	5	–	$57,382	$57k – $65k	▼ 12.3%

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How many people earn what

Under $10k211
$10k – $30k35
$30k – $50k21
$50k – $70k44
$70k – $90k85
$90k – $110k105
$110k – $150k131
$150k or more92

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

Pay by department

Department	People	Typical pay
Public Defender Services Comm	724	$82,624

Common questions

How much does a Public Defender Services (Connecticut) employee make?

Full-year employees were typically paid $89,081 in 2025; most earned between $5,939 and $117,762. Counting all 724 people paid during the year, typical pay was $82,624.

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. 211 people (29.1%) 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 (96.6% of all pay), overtime (0.0%) and extra pay such as allowances, longevity and severance (3.4%).

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