Computer Network Support Specialists in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,061
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$12,519
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,422
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
$60,580
Kept after tax
$48,061
Worth in national money
$48,422
State rank
43
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Delaware. The middle earner gets $60,580. That is 43 of 48 states, and about 20.52% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 217 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $60,580, tax leaves $48,061, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $48,422 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $67,420, since top earners drag the number up.
- For computer network support specialists, Delaware sits in the lower band at $60,580, ranking 43 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 20.52%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 217 of 445 in Delaware places computer network support specialists 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 computer network support specialists — median $60,580 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $48,061 retained, $48,422 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $67,420 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Computer Network Support Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $101,350 |
| This salary | $60,580 |
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 | $48,061 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,856 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,912 |
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 | $57,101 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,731 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $60,580 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,650 and the ninetieth is $101,350 — 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 $48,061, worked from $60,580. 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 217 of 445.
- Two cautions on $48,422, the adjusted value of that $60,580 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 217 of 445 locally.
- The Delaware median of $60,580 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,650 to $101,350. 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 $48,061, on $60,580 for work ranking 217 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 217 of 445 in the state.
- This $48,422 adjusted figure, worked from $60,580, 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 217 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 217 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 $67,420 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $44,650 at the bottom tenth to $101,350 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Delaware sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $48,422 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Delaware's own levy, $48,061 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $67,420. 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 ($44,650) and the ninetieth ($101,350) 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 $48,422 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 $48,061 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.