Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,281
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$16,789
22.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,712
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
$74,070
Kept after tax
$57,281
Worth in national money
$57,712
State rank
10
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $74,070, putting the state 10 of 51 — about 15.14% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 156 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $74,070, tax leaves $57,281, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $57,712 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $72,490.
- For educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $74,070, ranking 10 of 51 and running about 15.14% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 156 of 445 in Delaware places educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors 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 educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors — median $74,070 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $57,281 retained, $57,712 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $72,490 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,140 |
| This salary | $74,070 |
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 | $57,281 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,938 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,998 |
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 | $68,871 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,904 |
| 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 $74,070. The published range is $47,750 up to $96,140, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $57,281, from $74,070, 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 156 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 $57,712 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 156.
- Reported values are medians; for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,750 to $96,140. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Delaware is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $57,281 from $74,070. 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 156 of 445 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $57,712, worked from $74,070, 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 156 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $47,750 at the bottom tenth to $96,140 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Delaware is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $57,712 in national terms.
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 $57,281 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,750 to $96,140) 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 $57,712 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 $57,281 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.