Data Entry Specialist salary in Hartford-West Hartford, CT

Pay in Hartford-West Hartford against Connecticut and the US

The middle half of data entry specialists in Hartford-West Hartford earns $34,140–$43,360. Pay is tightly grouped: the top tenth starts at $53,800, only 1.6 times the bottom tenth, against 1.9 times across the US, so the going rate is easier to read. The mean ($39,940) is 17% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $9,220 wide, against $14,490 across Connecticut and $12,650 nationally: employers in Hartford-West Hartford pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for a data entry specialist here

Pay climbs faster above the median than below it here: the 75th percentile is $9,200 over the median, the 25th only $20 under it. An offer at the 75th percentile adds about $11,871 a year in employer cost. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $41,340 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Hartford-West Hartford, and the Connecticut statewide median of $38,560 falls there too.

What a hire really costs in Hartford-West Hartford

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $9,917 to the $34,160 median and brings it to $44,077 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Hartford-West Hartford

Data entry specialists have the lowest median of the 17 roles we track in Hartford-West Hartford; project coordinators have the highest, at $105,720.

Measured against the US median, this job is the lowest paid of the 17 roles we track in Hartford-West Hartford (-17.4%); administrative assistants come first (+17.7%). The typical role here is at +7.1%, so, measured against the US, data entry specialists cost less in Hartford-West Hartford than the area's general pay level would suggest. Data entry specialists hold 1.1% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Hartford-West Hartford, 0.7% across Connecticut and 0.8% nationally. The job is a bigger part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Connecticut

Across the 5 areas of Connecticut with data for this job, the median runs from $34,160 in Hartford-West Hartford to $51,340 in New Haven, a gap of $17,180 a year. No other area in Connecticut has as many data entry specialists, and none of the others pays less.

Hartford-West Hartford against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Hartford-West Hartford is #35 of 389 US areas for this job. It is one of the larger markets for this job, yet its pay sits in the bottom quarter of US areas. Outside Connecticut, Auburn-Opelika and Columbia pay just above Hartford-West Hartford and Beckley and Little Rock-North Little Rock just below. All four are within $300 a year of the median in Hartford-West Hartford. Of the three markets with about as many data entry specialists, all three pay more.

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