Fundraisers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,483
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$15,767
22.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,900
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
$71,250
Kept after tax
$55,483
Worth in national money
$55,900
State rank
18
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays fundraisers around $71,250 at the midpoint, 18 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 445 occupations Delaware reports figures for, this is number 164.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $71,250, tax leaves $55,483, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $55,900 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $74,760, since top earners drag the number up.
- For fundraisers the Delaware median is $71,250, ranking 18 of 51 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.
- In Delaware's occupational distribution, fundraisers sits at 164 of 445 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for fundraisers — median $71,250 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $55,483 retained, $55,900 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $74,760 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Fundraisers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $71,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,060 |
| This salary | $71,250 |
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 | $55,483 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $58,954 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,768 |
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 | $66,338 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,357 |
| 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 $71,250. The published range is $46,100 up to $105,060, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $55,483 take-home in Delaware comes from $71,250. 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 164 of 445.
- Two cautions on $55,900, the adjusted value of that $71,250 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 164 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for fundraisers in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $46,100 to $105,060. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $55,483, from $71,250, 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 164 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 18 of 51 for it.
- This $55,900 adjusted figure, worked from $71,250, 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 164 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 164 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $74,760 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $46,100 at the bottom tenth to $105,060 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $55,900 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 $55,483.
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 $74,760. 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 ($46,100) and the ninetieth ($105,060) 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 $55,900 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 $55,483 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.