Connecticut Wage Garnishment Calculator
Connecticut keeps the 25% cap but protects 40 times the state minimum wage — $677.60 a week at the 2026 rate of $16.94.
Before a wage execution can issue
- A wage execution is available only after you fail to comply with an installment payment order the court set on the judgment.§1
- Service on your employer triggers an automatic 20-day stay; filing a claim within those 20 days keeps the stay in place until the court decides it.§1
- Only one wage execution is paid at a time, in the order the employer received them.§1
- An employer may not discipline, suspend or discharge you over wage executions unless it is served with more than seven in a calendar year.§1
- The 2027 minimum wage is due from the Labor Commissioner by October 15, 2026; until it is published, dates in 2027 ask you for the official rate.§2
The 40-times-minimum-wage floor
the lesser of (1) twenty-five per cent of his disposable earnings for that week, or (2) the amount by which his disposable earnings for that week exceed forty times the higher of (A) the minimum hourly wage prescribed by Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act … or (B) the full minimum fair wage established by subsection (i) of section 31-58
A New Haven weekly check
Connecticut protects 40 hours of its $16.94 minimum wage — $677.60 a week of disposable pay. A New Haven worker grossing $900.00 with $160.00 withheld keeps everything up to that line, and the execution may take only the $62.40 above it, well under the $185.00 a federal-only state would allow.