Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$85,567
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$32,874
27.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$86,210
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
$118,440
Kept after tax
$85,567
Worth in national money
$86,210
State rank
13
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $118,440, putting the state 13 of 45 — about 2.85% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Delaware this is well-paid work. Of 445 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 48 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $118,440 the take-home is $85,567, which is worth about $86,210 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $117,880, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $118,440, ranking 13 of 45 and running about 2.85% 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, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors sits 48 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.
- Delaware's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors on its $118,440 median: $85,567 retained after tax becomes $86,210 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $117,880 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $85,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $118,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $146,950 |
| This salary | $118,440 |
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 | $85,567 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $92,153 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,621 |
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 | $109,078 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,908 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $118,440 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $85,640 and the ninetieth is $146,950 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Delaware's $85,567, worked from $118,440. 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 48 of 445.
- Two cautions on $86,210, the adjusted value of that $118,440 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 48 of 445 locally.
- The Delaware median of $118,440 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $85,640 to $146,950. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Delaware take-home of $85,567, on $118,440 for work ranking 48 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 48 of 445 in the state.
- This $86,210 adjusted figure, worked from $118,440, 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 48 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 48 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $85,640 at the tenth percentile, $146,950 at the ninetieth.
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 $86,210 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Delaware's own levy, $85,567 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 ($85,640 to $146,950) 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 $86,210 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 $85,567 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.