Best jobs in Norwich, CT
The best-scoring occupations in the Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to Norwich, CT (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
How Norwich, CT pay compares to the nation
Median vs U.S. median · scale ±10%
$514,290 vs $496,010 · +3.7%
$135,930 vs $132,300 · +2.7%
$39,570 vs $35,800 · +10.5%
−10%U.S. MEDIAN+10%
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 679 scored occupations — show all 679show top 25
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Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
150
$54,340
-1.6%
28
234
$63,750
+3.1%
23
264
$63,730
+3.7%
21
306
$98,220
+1.9%
19
333
$48,850
+6.3%
19
387
$62,130
+0.3%
17
478
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$38,210
+4.6%
14
509
$56,310
+2.3%
13
516
$83,090
-13.7%
13
540
—†
+2.0%
13†
596
—†
-4.3%
10†
645
$46,400
-12.0%
8
648
$47,300
-12.1%
8
651
—†
-19.6%
8†
672
$39,080
-3.8%
7
Live jobs in Norwich, CT
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.