Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,011
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$12,839
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,380
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
$61,850
Kept after tax
$49,011
Worth in national money
$49,380
State rank
5
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $61,850, which ranks 5 of 47 states with published figures. That is about 9.37% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 212 of 445 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $61,850 the take-home is $49,011, which is worth about $49,380 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $62,150, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Delaware ranks 5 of 47 states publishing a median for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians, at $61,850 — about 9.37% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians ranks 212 of 445 occupations in Delaware by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Delaware's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians on its $61,850 median: $49,011 retained after tax becomes $49,380 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $62,150 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,460 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,510 |
| This salary | $61,850 |
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 | $49,011 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,876 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,005 |
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 | $58,283 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,844 |
| 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 $61,850. The published range is $44,460 up to $78,510, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $49,011, from $61,850, 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 212 of 445 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $49,380, the adjusted value of that $61,850 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 212 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $44,460 to $78,510. 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 $49,011 from $61,850. 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 212 of 445 locally.
- This $49,380 adjusted figure, worked from $61,850, 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 212 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 212 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $44,460 at the bottom tenth to $78,510 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 $49,380 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, $49,011 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($44,460 to $78,510) 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 $49,380 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 $49,011 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.