Financial and Investment Analysts in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$74,959
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$26,842
26.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,523
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
$101,800
Kept after tax
$74,959
Worth in national money
$75,523
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $101,800, putting the state 15 of 51 — about 0.91% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Delaware this is well-paid work. Of 445 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 68 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $101,800, tax leaves $74,959, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $75,523 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $116,240, since top earners drag the number up.
- For financial and investment analysts, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $101,800, ranking 15 of 51 and running about 0.91% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Delaware publishes a median for, financial and investment analysts sits 68 of 445 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for financial and investment analysts — median $101,800 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $74,959 retained, $75,523 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $116,240 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Financial and Investment Analysts
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $68,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $168,450 |
| This salary | $101,800 |
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 | $74,959 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,446 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,262 |
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 | $93,999 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,032 |
| 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 $101,800. The published range is $68,530 up to $168,450, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $74,959 take-home in Delaware comes from $101,800. 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 68 of 445.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $75,523 uses one figure for the whole of Delaware. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 445 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 68.
- Reported values are medians; for financial and investment analysts in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $68,530 to $168,450. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $74,959, from $101,800, 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 68 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $75,523, worked from $101,800, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Delaware address, on work sitting at 68 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $116,240, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $68,530 and the top tenth $168,450 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Delaware is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $75,523 in national terms.
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 $74,959 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 $116,240. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($68,530) and the ninetieth ($168,450) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $75,523 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 $74,959 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.