Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,405
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$11,625
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,747
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
$57,030
Kept after tax
$45,405
Worth in national money
$45,747
State rank
28
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $57,030, ranking 28 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 253 of 445 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $57,030, tax leaves $45,405, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $45,747 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $60,700, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware occupies the middle band for cement masons and concrete finishers: a median of $57,030, ranking 28 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Cement masons and concrete finishers ranks 253 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.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for cement masons and concrete finishers — median $57,030 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $45,405 retained, $45,747 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $60,700 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,030 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,260 |
| This salary | $57,030 |
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 | $45,405 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,004 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,652 |
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 | $53,796 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,417 |
| 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 cement masons and concrete finishers in Delaware earn under $57,030 and half over. The published range runs $44,130 at the tenth percentile to $79,260 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $45,405 take-home in Delaware comes from $57,030. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 253 of 445.
- Two cautions on $45,747, the adjusted value of that $57,030 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 253 of 445 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for cement masons and concrete finishers in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $44,130 to $79,260; 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.
- Retained pay of $45,405, from $57,030, assumes a single Delaware filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 253 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 28 of 51 for it.
- This $45,747 adjusted figure, worked from $57,030, 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 253 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 253 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 $60,700, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $44,130 at the bottom tenth to $79,260 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $45,747 in national terms.
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 $45,405.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $60,700. 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 ($44,130 to $79,260) 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 $45,747 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 $45,405 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.