Exactly 540 of the 4,290 communications professionals employed in Connecticut, work in Hamden. There has been a 32% decline in the number of communications professionals in Hamden between the years 2006 and 2010. As the number of communications professionals in Hamden has decreased, overall employment in Hamden has increased.

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In Hamden, salaries for communications professionals have increased. In 2010 communications professionals in Hamden reportedly earned an average salary of $52,996 per year. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for communications professionals in Hamden was $50,626 per year. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Hamden.

Communications professionals in Hamden make a median yearly salary of $49,698. The difference in pay between the communications professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 171%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $30,444 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $82,626 per year.

Hamden communications professionals have earnings that are lower than the salaries earned by others in related fields, on average.

Many of Hamden's communications professionals are graduates of the only accredited communications school in the city.

Hamden's communications schools offer 2 communications degree and certificate programs.

Approximately 84 students completed communications courses in 2010.