Education Administrators, All Other in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,360
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$27,070
26.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,927
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
$102,430
Kept after tax
$75,360
Worth in national money
$75,927
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Delaware pays this job a middle wage of $102,430, ranking 12 of 49 states and sitting about 7.59% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Delaware. It ranks 63 out of 445 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $102,430 the take-home is $75,360, which is worth about $75,927 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $108,840, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Delaware's median for education administrators, all other is $102,430, about 7.59% above the national figure and 12 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Delaware, education administrators, all other ranks 63 of 445 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Delaware's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for education administrators, all other on its $102,430 median: $75,360 retained after tax becomes $75,927 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $108,840 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Education Administrators, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $64,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,430 |
| Top tenth earn over | $149,750 |
| This salary | $102,430 |
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 | $75,360 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,890 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,314 |
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 | $94,570 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,103 |
| 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 $102,430. The published range is $64,320 up to $149,750, 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 $75,360, worked from $102,430. 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 63 of 445.
- Two cautions on $75,927, the adjusted value of that $102,430 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 63 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for education administrators, all other in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $64,320 to $149,750. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Delaware take-home of $75,360, on $102,430 for work ranking 63 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 63 of 445 in the state.
- This $75,927 adjusted figure, worked from $102,430, 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 63 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 63 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 $108,840 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $64,320, the highest tenth $149,750, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $75,927 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Delaware adds its own income tax on top — which is why $75,360 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $108,840. 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 ($64,320) and the ninetieth ($149,750) 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 $75,927 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 $75,360 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.