Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,333
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$17,388
23.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,772
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
$75,720
Kept after tax
$58,333
Worth in national money
$58,772
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays this job around $75,720 at the midpoint, 27 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 149 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 $75,720, tax leaves $58,333, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $58,772 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $80,310, since top earners drag the number up.
- For control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door the Delaware median is $75,720, ranking 27 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door ranks 149 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 control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door — median $75,720 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $58,333 retained, $58,772 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $80,310 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,720 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,150 |
| This salary | $75,720 |
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 | $58,333 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,099 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,133 |
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 | $70,366 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,090 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $75,720 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $52,180 and the ninetieth is $105,150 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $58,333, from $75,720, 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 149 of 445 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,772 uses one figure for the whole of Delaware. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 445 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 149.
- The Delaware median of $75,720 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $52,180 to $105,150. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Delaware is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $58,333 from $75,720. 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 149 of 445 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,772, worked from $75,720, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Delaware address, on work sitting at 149 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 $80,310, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $52,180 and the top tenth $105,150, so most people doing this work in Delaware sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $58,772.
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 $58,333.
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 $80,310. 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 ($52,180 to $105,150) 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 $58,772 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 $58,333 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.