The latest wage data for jobs in the nation's largest counties
shows how wage growth in Connecticut is lagging the national
average, but how even as employment grows slowly or shrinks, the
average worker in Connecticut is better paid than the average
worker in the United States.  The latest figures from the
federal Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the average
weekly pay in Fairfield County in the first three months of 2013
was $1,878. That figure is a lot more than other times of the
year, because it's bonus season, even if some firms moved
bonuses into 2012 to avoid higher tax rates that took effect
Jan. 1.  Probably due to that income shifting, Fairfield had a
rather large drop in average wages compared with the first
quarter of 2012, a decline of 1.9 percent. But it still was
enough to rank fourth in the nation, behind New York City;
Somerset County, NJ.; and the heart of the Silicon Valley.
Hartford County's average wage was $1,315, a decline of one half
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