Electrical Engineers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$90,901
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$36,069
28.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$91,585
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
$126,970
Kept after tax
$90,901
Worth in national money
$91,585
State rank
9
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for electrical engineers is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $126,970, putting the state 9 of 49 — about 5.26% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Delaware. It ranks 41 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 $126,970 the take-home is $90,901, which is worth about $91,585 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $122,850, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For electrical engineers, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $126,970, ranking 9 of 49 and running about 5.26% 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.
- Within Delaware, electrical engineers ranks 41 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 electrical engineers on its $126,970 median: $90,901 retained after tax becomes $91,585 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $122,850 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Electrical Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $83,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $126,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $152,060 |
| This salary | $126,970 |
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 | $90,901 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $98,050 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,315 |
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 | $116,661 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,014 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of electrical engineers in Delaware earn under $126,970 and half over. The published range runs $83,600 at the tenth percentile to $152,060 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $90,901 take-home in Delaware comes from $126,970. 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 41 of 445.
- One number stands for prices across all of Delaware, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $91,585, the adjusted value of that $126,970 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 41 of 445 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for electrical engineers in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $83,600 to $152,060; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $90,901, from $126,970, 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 41 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 9 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Delaware, so $91,585 — the adjusted value of that $126,970 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 41 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 $122,850 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $83,600 and the top tenth $152,060, 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 $91,585.
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 $90,901 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $122,850. 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 ($83,600 to $152,060) 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 $91,585 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 $90,901 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.