Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,378
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$6,562
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,607
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
$36,940
Kept after tax
$30,378
Worth in national money
$30,607
State rank
26
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays this job around $36,940 at the midpoint, 26 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 445 occupations Delaware publishes, this job lands at 393. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $36,940, tax leaves $30,378, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $30,607 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $37,920, since top earners drag the number up.
- For farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals the Delaware median is $36,940, ranking 26 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Delaware, this work ranks 393 of 445 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals — median $36,940 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $30,378 retained, $30,607 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $37,920 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,240 |
| This salary | $36,940 |
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 | $30,378 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,861 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,181 |
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 | $35,094 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,638 |
| 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 farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals in Delaware earn under $36,940 and half over. The published range runs $31,200 at the tenth percentile to $46,240 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Delaware's $30,378, worked from $36,940. 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 393 of 445.
- Two cautions on $30,607, the adjusted value of that $36,940 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 393 of 445 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,200 to $46,240; 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.
- The Delaware take-home of $30,378, on $36,940 for work ranking 393 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 393 of 445 in the state.
- This $30,607 adjusted figure, worked from $36,940, 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 393 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 393 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,200 at the tenth percentile, $46,240 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 $30,607 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 $30,378 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,200 to $46,240) 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 $30,607 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 $30,378 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.