Emergency Medical Technicians in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,746
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$9,044
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,030
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
$46,790
Kept after tax
$37,746
Worth in national money
$38,030
State rank
13
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $46,790, putting the state 13 of 51 — about 5.22% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 445 occupations Delaware reports figures for, this is number 318.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $46,790, tax leaves $37,746, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $38,030 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $49,420, since top earners drag the number up.
- For emergency medical technicians, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $46,790, ranking 13 of 51 and running about 5.22% 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.
- In Delaware's occupational distribution, emergency medical technicians sits at 318 of 445 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for emergency medical technicians — median $46,790 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $37,746 retained, $38,030 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $49,420 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Emergency Medical Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,060 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,660 |
| This salary | $46,790 |
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 | $37,746 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,776 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,902 |
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 | $44,264 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,510 |
| 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 $46,790. The published range is $39,060 up to $57,660, 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 $37,746, worked from $46,790. 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 318 of 445.
- Two cautions on $38,030, the adjusted value of that $46,790 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 318 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for emergency medical technicians in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,060 to $57,660. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Delaware take-home of $37,746, on $46,790 for work ranking 318 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 318 of 445 in the state.
- This $38,030 adjusted figure, worked from $46,790, 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 318 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 318 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 $49,420 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $39,060 at the bottom tenth to $57,660 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $38,030 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 $37,746 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.
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 $49,420. 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 ($39,060 to $57,660) 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 $38,030 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 $37,746 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.