Exactly 810 of Connecticut's 16,890 human services professionals work in Waterbury. There has been a 16% growth in the number of human services professionals in Waterbury between the years 2006 and 2010. As the number of human services professionals in Waterbury has increased, overall employment in Waterbury has decreased.

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As the number of human services professionals in Waterbury has grown, salaries for human services professionals have also increased. Waterbury human services professionals made $45,058 per year, on average, in 2010. The average salary for human services professionals in Waterbury was $38,453 per year, four years earlier in 2006. The growth in the salary of human services professionals in Waterbury is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Human services professionals in Waterbury make a median yearly salary of $44,305. The difference in pay between the human services professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 147%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $26,878 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $66,492 per year.

On average human services professional salaries in Waterbury are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

Many of Waterbury's human services professionals are graduates of the only accredited human services school in the city.

Waterbury's human services schools offer 2 human services degree and certificate programs.

Approximately 44 students graduated from human services courses in 2010.