Advertising Sales Agents in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,002
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$10,478
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,318
Delaware costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Delaware — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$52,480
Kept after tax
$42,002
Worth in national money
$42,318
State rank
32
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays advertising sales agents around $52,480 at the midpoint, 32 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Advertising sales agents ranks 272 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $52,480, tax leaves $42,002, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $42,318 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $58,300, since top earners drag the number up.
- For advertising sales agents the Delaware median is $52,480, ranking 32 of 48 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 272 of 445 in Delaware places advertising sales agents in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for advertising sales agents — median $52,480 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $42,002 retained, $42,318 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $58,300 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Advertising Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,480 |
| Top tenth earn over | $85,220 |
| This salary | $52,480 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Delaware | $42,002 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,348 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,319 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $49,561 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,014 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $52,480 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,880 and the ninetieth is $85,220 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Delaware's $42,002, worked from $52,480. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 272 of 445.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $42,318 uses one figure for the whole of Delaware. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 445 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 272.
- The Delaware median of $52,480 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,880 to $85,220. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Delaware take-home of $42,002, on $52,480 for work ranking 272 of 445 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 272 of 445 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $42,318, worked from $52,480, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Delaware address, on work sitting at 272 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $58,300 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $37,880 and the top tenth $85,220 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $42,318.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Delaware then takes its own share, leaving $42,002.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Delaware is $58,300. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,880) and the ninetieth ($85,220) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Delaware's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $42,318 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $42,002 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Delaware income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.