Hartford County · Connecticut
Hartford, CT jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Hartford, CT earn a median of $34,003 a year, 24% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 10.6% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 25.6% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $34,003#84 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 10.6%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 63.4%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 53,938Civilian employed, age 16+
What Hartford does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance25.6%
- Retail trade15.6%
- Professional, scientific & management10.5%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities10.4%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food9.4%
- Manufacturing5.7%
- Finance, insurance & real estate5.6%
- Other services, except public administration4.9%
- Construction4.8%
- Public administration4%
- Wholesale trade2.3%
- Information0.9%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.4%
Related data for Hartford
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.