Audio and Video Technicians in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,402
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$12,298
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,759
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
$59,700
Kept after tax
$47,402
Worth in national money
$47,759
State rank
13
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for audio and video technicians is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $59,700, putting the state 13 of 49 — about 2.75% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Audio and video technicians ranks 229 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $59,700 the take-home is $47,402, which is worth about $47,759 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $63,070, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For audio and video technicians, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $59,700, ranking 13 of 49 and running about 2.75% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 229 of 445 in Delaware places audio and video technicians 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.
- Delaware's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for audio and video technicians on its $59,700 median: $47,402 retained after tax becomes $47,759 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $63,070 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Audio and Video Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,700 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,760 |
| This salary | $59,700 |
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 | $47,402 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,149 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,848 |
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 | $56,282 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,653 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,700 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $48,370 and the ninetieth is $78,760 — 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 $47,402, worked from $59,700. 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 229 of 445.
- Two cautions on $47,759, the adjusted value of that $59,700 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Delaware. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 229 of 445 locally.
- The Delaware median of $59,700 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $48,370 to $78,760. 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 $47,402, on $59,700 for work ranking 229 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 229 of 445 in the state.
- This $47,759 adjusted figure, worked from $59,700, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 229 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 229 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $63,070, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $48,370 at the tenth percentile, $78,760 at the ninetieth.
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 $47,759.
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 $47,402.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $63,070. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($48,370 to $78,760) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Delaware rather than a national figure.
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 $47,759 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 $47,402 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.