Social scientists and related workers, all other job market in Connecticut

Industry trends, wages and hiring signals.

The headline

Industry employment fell while average weekly industry wages rose

A data-driven view of the industries that employ Social scientists and related workers, all other in Connecticut.

Verified QCEW 2026 Q1January to March 2026 · State coverage 100% · BLS QCEWCitationEvidence record

Occupation pay

What Social scientists and related workers, all other earn in Connecticut

BLS OEWS occupation-level pay estimates for this role — separate from the industry wage trends used elsewhere in this report.

BLS OEWS source

Median hourly wage

Not publishedConnecticut
Middle 50% of published wages
Not published
U.S. median hourly wage
$48.61
Reference period
May 2025

The middle 50% is the 25th-to-75th percentile wage range, not an experience-level band. Suppressed or unavailable BLS values remain unpublished rather than being estimated.

Verified snapshot

Market at a Glance

Key changes in Connecticut’s weighted industry mix.

-2.8%Industry employmentConnecticut industry employmentU.S. -4.4%vs. -4.4% U.S.
-0.4%Establishments in weighted industriesConnecticut establishments in weighted industriesU.S. +1.0%vs. +1.0% U.S.
+4.1%Avg. weekly industry wageConnecticut avg. weekly industry wageU.S. +5.7% · not occupation payvs. +5.7% U.S. · not occupation pay
+1.6 ppGap vs. U.S. industry employmentState minus U.S. industry employment change

Percentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.

Published coverage: 62,453 represented establishments, 87.25% of the published industry mix.

Latest interpretation

What stands out for social scientists and related workers, all other in Connecticut

The clearest signals from the latest validated state industry data available for this page.

Connecticut leads the U.S. on weighted-industry employment

Employment across the industries associated with Social scientists and related workers, all other changed -2.8% year over year in Connecticut, 1.6 percentage points above the national change of -4.4%. This is weighted industry context, not direct occupation employment.

BLS QCEW weighted industry context

Growth is concentrated in one industry group

Private education and health services was the only one of the 6 leading weighted industry groups with published employment growth, at +1.8%.

BLS QCEW weighted industry context

Industry measures describe the industries associated with this occupation. They are not direct occupation employment, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score.

Employment trends

Year-over-year change in the weighted industries. The U.S. line is the latest-quarter benchmark because a comparable national quarterly history is not published here.

Latest published values
  • Connecticut · 2026 Q1-2.8%
  • U.S. · latest-quarter benchmark-4.4%

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Quarterly Connecticut industry employment changes and coverage
QuarterConnecticutCoverage
2024 Q2+0.8%100%
2024 Q3+0.8%100%
2024 Q4+0.4%100%
2025 Q1-0.4%100%
2025 Q2-0.9%100%
2025 Q3-1.7%100%
2025 Q4-3.0%100%
2026 Q1-2.8%100%

How to read this chart

State trend and national reference

The solid line follows Connecticut’s published year-over-year industry employment changes by quarter. The dashed U.S. line is a latest-quarter reference, not a second time series.

Published quarters
8
Earliest quarter
2024 Q2
Latest quarter
2026 Q1
U.S. benchmark
-4.4%

Quarters with no published value are omitted rather than interpolated.

Industry context

Where Social scientists and related workers, all other Work

The occupation mix determines which Connecticut industries are weighted into this view.

Industries weighted into the Connecticut Social scientists and related workers, all other context
Industry groupOccupation mixEmployment changeEstablishmentsAvg. weekly industry wage
Federal52.9%-5.5%592$2,087
Private education and health services18.2%+1.8%26,609$1,337
Professional and business services16.0%-0.8%35,252$2,826
State and local10.5%-0.4%2,794$1,462
Other services2.0%-2.0%12,378$1,010
Trade, transportation, and utilities0.3%-1.7%25,279$1,462

Which industries are growing?

One weighted industry is growing

Only weighted industries with a published positive Connecticut employment change are listed.

  • Private education and health services+1.8%

The remaining weighted industries published a flat or negative change in January to March 2026.

Current Connecticut context

Current Connecticut Market Signals

Statewide indicators for all occupations in Connecticut. They are not Social scientists and related workers, all other demand and are not part of the Job Market Health score.

Statewide job postings

Indeed job postings · Connecticut

Recent hiring-demand context · separate from the health score

109.5Postings index · February 1, 2020 = 100Observation: Oct 23, 2026
+9.5%Versus the February 2020 baseline
-1.1%Change over about four weeksSep 25, 2026 to Oct 23, 2026

Total postings index (seasonally adjusted) by observation date · baseline 100

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Indeed postings index
Observation dateIndex (Feb 2020 = 100)
Jul 24, 2026108.77
Jul 31, 2026108.96
Aug 7, 2026108.71
Aug 14, 2026109.50
Aug 21, 2026109.76
Aug 28, 2026110.63
Sep 4, 2026110.45
Sep 11, 2026111.34
Sep 18, 2026111.76
Sep 25, 2026110.71
Oct 2, 2026109.34
Oct 9, 2026110.41
Oct 16, 2026109.28
Oct 23, 2026109.47

This is statewide demand across all occupations, not demand for this specific job. Postings are not a count of vacancies or hires, and Indeed does not cover the entire labor market.

Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0. Seven-day average, seasonally adjusted; publisher refreshes weekly and may revise history. Retrieved Nov 1, 2026 · saved source copy. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and samples weekly observations for the chart.

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Statewide layoff notices

Statewide layoff-notice filings

Connecticut statewide

6 notices in this source

Notice dates from Aug 5, 2026 to Nov 2, 2026 (UTC), a rolling 90-calendar-day period.

What this means: These are statewide totals from notices dated in this period in Connecticut’s official tracking system. Reported positions are the counts published in those notices, not a count of people confirmed to have lost their jobs. No employer is identified.

Notices describe planned workforce changes, not confirmed job losses. Notices may be amended or withdrawn. This statewide context is not occupation-specific and does not affect the Job Market Health score. Connecticut’s state tracking system also records smaller Rapid Response events that fall below federal WARN thresholds, so it is not a list of federal WARN filings only.

Connecticut Department of Labor About WARN data

Source last checked

Questions answered by this release

Social scientists and related workers, all other in Connecticut FAQs

Each answer is limited to what QCEW 2026 Q1 actually publishes for this state.

Is employment growing for Social scientists and related workers, all other in Connecticut?

The available QCEW measure is not direct occupation employment. Employment across the Connecticut industries weighted to Social scientists and related workers, all other changed -2.8% year over year in January to March 2026, compared with -4.4% nationwide.

Are wages for Social scientists and related workers, all other rising in Connecticut?

QCEW does not publish pay for Social scientists and related workers, all other in this view. Average weekly wages across the weighted industries changed +4.1% year over year; that must not be read as an occupation salary change.

How complete is this Connecticut industry view?

The three core state trends each meet the site’s coverage floor; the minimum published coverage is 100% of the occupation’s industry mix.

Does this page show current Social scientists and related workers, all other openings?

No. QCEW measures industry employment, establishments and wages. Any postings, news or WARN figures shown here are statewide context and are not occupation-specific openings.

Methodology & sourcesQCEW 2026 Q1 · coverage 100% · full evidence record

Methodology & Sources

Derived by JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix. This is occupation-weighted industry context, not direct occupation employment and not a count of current job openings.

Occupation
Social scientists and related workers, all other
SOC code
19-3099
State
Connecticut
QCEW release label
QCEW 2026 Q1
Data period
2026 Q1
State industry employment, year over year
-2.8%State data coverage 100%
U.S. benchmark, year over year
-4.4%
Difference from U.S. benchmark
+1.6 percentage pointsPercentage-point gaps use the original published values and are rounded once; subtracting the rounded percentages can give a slightly different result.
Establishments, year over year
-0.4%State data coverage 100%
Average weekly industry wage, year over year
+4.1%State data coverage 100%
Industry mix vintage
EP-2025-2035
BLS publication date
Aug 28, 2026
Source verification
Verified against the committed source snapshotVerified Sep 17, 2026
Canonical record URL
https://jobmarkethealth.com/occupations/social-scientists-and-related-workers-all-other/connecticut#evidence-record
Derived by
JobMarketHealth from BLS QCEW + published occupation industry mix

Weighted industry conditions are not direct occupation employment, occupation wages, current openings or a state-level Job Market Health score. No causal explanation is inferred.

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