Food Service Managers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,510
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$16,920
22.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,943
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
$74,430
Kept after tax
$57,510
Worth in national money
$57,943
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is one of the better-paying states for food service managers. The middle earner takes $74,430, which ranks 15 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 7.26% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 154 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 $74,430, tax leaves $57,510, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $57,943 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $78,440, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware ranks 15 of 51 states publishing a median for food service managers, at $74,430 — about 7.26% 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.
- Food service managers ranks 154 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 food service managers — median $74,430 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $57,510 retained, $57,943 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $78,440 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Food Service Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,820 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,430 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,200 |
| This salary | $74,430 |
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 | $57,510 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,192 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,027 |
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 | $69,197 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,944 |
| 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 $74,430. The published range is $57,820 up to $107,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $57,510, from $74,430, 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 154 of 445 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $57,943 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 154.
- Reported values are medians; for food service managers in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $57,820 to $107,200. 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 $57,510 from $74,430. 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 154 of 445 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $57,943, worked from $74,430, 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 154 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 $78,440, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $57,820 and the top tenth $107,200, so most people doing this work in Delaware sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $57,943 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Delaware then takes its own share, leaving $57,510.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $78,440. 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 ($57,820 to $107,200) 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 $57,943 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 $57,510 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.