Healthcare Support Workers, All Other in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,951
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$11,809
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,297
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
$57,760
Kept after tax
$45,951
Worth in national money
$46,297
State rank
5
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for healthcare support workers, all other is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $57,760, putting the state 5 of 51 — about 19.26% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 243 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 $57,760, tax leaves $45,951, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $46,297 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $59,100, since top earners drag the number up.
- For healthcare support workers, all other, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $57,760, ranking 5 of 51 and running about 19.26% 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.
- Healthcare support workers, all other ranks 243 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 healthcare support workers, all other — median $57,760 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $45,951 retained, $46,297 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $59,100 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Healthcare Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,250 |
| This salary | $57,760 |
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 | $45,951 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,590 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,706 |
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 | $54,476 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,481 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of healthcare support workers, all other in Delaware earn under $57,760 and half over. The published range runs $37,310 at the tenth percentile to $79,250 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $45,951 take-home in Delaware comes from $57,760. 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 243 of 445.
- Two cautions on $46,297, the adjusted value of that $57,760 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 243 of 445 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for healthcare support workers, all other in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,310 to $79,250; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $45,951, from $57,760, 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 243 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 51 for it.
- This $46,297 adjusted figure, worked from $57,760, 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 243 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 243 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,310, the highest tenth $79,250, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $46,297.
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 $45,951 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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,310) and the ninetieth ($79,250) 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 $46,297 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 $45,951 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.