Engineers, All Other in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$76,093
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$27,487
26.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,666
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
$103,580
Kept after tax
$76,093
Worth in national money
$76,666
State rank
40
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for engineers, all other is on the low side in Delaware. The middle earner gets $103,580. That is 40 of 51 states, and about 15.74% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Delaware. It ranks 58 out of 445 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $103,580, tax leaves $76,093, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $76,666 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $106,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- For engineers, all other, Delaware sits in the lower band at $103,580, ranking 40 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 15.74%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Delaware, engineers, all other ranks 58 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.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for engineers, all other — median $103,580 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $76,093 retained, $76,666 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $106,750 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Engineers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $73,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $103,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $144,250 |
| This salary | $103,580 |
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 | $76,093 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,699 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,408 |
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 | $95,612 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,232 |
| 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 $103,580. The published range is $73,360 up to $144,250, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $76,093, from $103,580, 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 58 of 445 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $76,666, the adjusted value of that $103,580 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 58 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for engineers, all other in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $73,360 to $144,250. 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 $76,093 from $103,580. 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 58 of 445 locally.
- This $76,666 adjusted figure, worked from $103,580, 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 58 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 58 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $106,750, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $73,360 at the tenth percentile, $144,250 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 $76,666 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, $76,093 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 $106,750. 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 ($73,360 to $144,250) 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 $76,666 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 $76,093 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.