First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,133
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$20,117
24.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,608
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
$83,250
Kept after tax
$63,133
Worth in national money
$63,608
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $83,250, which ranks 16 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 4.24% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 117 of 445 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $83,250, tax leaves $63,133, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,608 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $88,140, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware ranks 16 of 51 states publishing a median for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers, at $83,250 — about 4.24% 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.
- First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers ranks 117 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.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers — median $83,250 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $63,133 retained, $63,608 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $88,140 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $125,460 |
| This salary | $83,250 |
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 | $63,133 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,396 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,748 |
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 | $77,190 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,939 |
| 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 $83,250. The published range is $60,390 up to $125,460, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $63,133 take-home in Delaware comes from $83,250. 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 117 of 445.
- One number stands for prices across all of Delaware, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $63,608, the adjusted value of that $83,250 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 117 of 445 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $60,390 to $125,460. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $63,133, from $83,250, 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 117 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Delaware, so $63,608 — the adjusted value of that $83,250 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 117 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 $88,140, 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 $60,390 and the top tenth $125,460 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $63,608 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 $63,133 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 $88,140. 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 ($60,390) and the ninetieth ($125,460) 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 $63,608 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 $63,133 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.