Automotive Body and Related Repairers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,234
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$9,546
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,530
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
$48,780
Kept after tax
$39,234
Worth in national money
$39,530
State rank
44
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $48,780, ranking 44 of 51 states — about 11.13% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 296 of 445 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $48,780 the take-home is $39,234, which is worth about $39,530 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $54,340, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Delaware ranks 44 of 51 for automotive body and related repairers, with a median of $48,780 — about 11.13% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Automotive body and related repairers ranks 296 of 445 occupations in Delaware by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Delaware's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for automotive body and related repairers on its $48,780 median: $39,234 retained after tax becomes $39,530 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $54,340 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,370 |
| This salary | $48,780 |
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 | $39,234 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,375 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,048 |
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 | $46,116 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,686 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of automotive body and related repairers in Delaware earn under $48,780 and half over. The published range runs $33,840 at the tenth percentile to $74,370 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $39,234, from $48,780, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 296 of 445 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $39,530, the adjusted value of that $48,780 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 296 of 445 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for automotive body and related repairers in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,840 to $74,370; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Delaware is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,234 from $48,780. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 296 of 445 locally.
- This $39,530 adjusted figure, worked from $48,780, 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 296 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 296 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $54,340, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $33,840 and the top tenth $74,370 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Delaware is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $39,530 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Delaware adds its own income tax on top — which is why $39,234 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $54,340. 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 ($33,840) and the ninetieth ($74,370) 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 $39,530 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 $39,234 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.