Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,137
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$26,943
26.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,702
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
$102,080
Kept after tax
$75,137
Worth in national money
$75,702
State rank
10
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $102,080, which ranks 10 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 5.26% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 445 occupations Delaware reports, this job comes in at 66 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $102,080, tax leaves $75,137, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $75,702 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $114,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware ranks 10 of 48 states publishing a median for computer science teachers, postsecondary, at $102,080 — about 5.26% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Computer science teachers, postsecondary ranks 66 of 445 occupations by median in Delaware, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for computer science teachers, postsecondary — median $102,080 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $75,137 retained, $75,702 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $114,750 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $162,570 |
| This salary | $102,080 |
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 | $75,137 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,643 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,285 |
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 | $94,253 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,063 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Delaware earn less than $102,080. The published range is $60,340 up to $162,570, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Delaware's $75,137, worked from $102,080. 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 66 of 445.
- Two cautions on $75,702, the adjusted value of that $102,080 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 66 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for computer science teachers, postsecondary in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $60,340 to $162,570. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Delaware take-home of $75,137, on $102,080 for work ranking 66 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 66 of 445 in the state.
- This $75,702 adjusted figure, worked from $102,080, 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 66 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 66 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 $114,750 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 $60,340 at the bottom tenth to $162,570 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 $75,702 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, $75,137 remains.
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 $114,750. 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 ($60,340) and the ninetieth ($162,570) 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 $75,702 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 $75,137 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.