Dietitians and Nutritionists in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,824
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$18,236
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,275
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
$78,060
Kept after tax
$59,824
Worth in national money
$60,275
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Delaware pays dietitians and nutritionists a middle wage of $78,060, ranking 11 of 51 states and sitting about 2.17% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 138 of 445 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Delaware costs about what the country costs, so from $78,060, take-home of $59,824 is worth roughly $60,275 in national money. The average comes to $81,180, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Delaware's median for dietitians and nutritionists is $78,060, about 2.17% above the national figure and 11 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Dietitians and nutritionists ranks 138 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.
- Price parity in Delaware is near the national base, so for dietitians and nutritionists, whose median is $78,060, the adjusted figure of $60,275 differs little from $59,824 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $81,180 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Dietitians and Nutritionists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,060 |
| Top tenth earn over | $111,600 |
| This salary | $78,060 |
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 | $59,824 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,745 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,324 |
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 | $72,486 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,354 |
| 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 $78,060. The published range is $57,810 up to $111,600, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $59,824 take-home in Delaware comes from $78,060. 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 138 of 445.
- Two cautions on $60,275, the adjusted value of that $78,060 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 138 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for dietitians and nutritionists in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $57,810 to $111,600. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $59,824, from $78,060, 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 138 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 51 for it.
- This $60,275 adjusted figure, worked from $78,060, 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 138 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 138 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 $81,180 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $57,810 at the tenth percentile, $111,600 at the ninetieth.
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 $60,275 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, $59,824 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $81,180. 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 ($57,810 to $111,600) 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 $60,275 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 $59,824 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.