Few Conn. online job postings pay above $78K median income
As job opportunities go, it was a pretty good one to hit Indeed.com: a sales consultant position in the Rocky Hill office of payroll giant Paychex that pays $78,000 a year — a salary that’s right in line with the median annual household income in Connecticut.
But unemployed workers scanning Indeed for similar paychecks will find fewer than 200 statewide jobs uploaded since the start of the week — out of some 2,000 new job openings in Connecticut across all pay scales posted during that stretch.
In late February, more than 218,000 Connecticut residents were looking for work, a number that has remained stubbornly elevated since the start of the year. More than 14,000 job seekers reported their pay at $75,000 or more prior to being laid off.
On Indeed, there is roughly one open job in Connecticut for every four workers looking, with only about 5,750 jobs that pay $75,000 or more. A significant number of those high-paying jobs are in health fields that require professional certifications that take months or years to complete.
New job ads increased by nearly half in Connecticut last week to some 6,200 openings on career websites tracked by the
economic analysis nonprofit The Conference Board, with every industry seeing gains.
As Gov. Ned Lamont crafts a strategy to spur hiring coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic,
one major hurdle is getting employers to add jobs with staying power — literally, at sufficient pay so that families can afford to stay a lifetime.
Speaking Tuesday morning to
members of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Lamont held out hope for the possibility of a swift economic turnaround, as the state puts a