Industrial Production Managers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$106,975
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$46,026
30.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$107,780
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
$153,000
Kept after tax
$106,975
Worth in national money
$107,780
State rank
1
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is one of the better-paying states for industrial production managers. The middle earner takes $153,000, which ranks 1 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 21.37% above the national middle.
- Within Delaware this is well-paid work. Of 445 occupations with published figures in the state, industrial production managers ranks 17 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $153,000, tax leaves $106,975, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $107,780 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $156,570, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware ranks 1 of 50 states publishing a median for industrial production managers, at $153,000 — about 21.37% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Delaware publishes a median for, industrial production managers sits 17 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.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for industrial production managers — median $153,000 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $106,975 retained, $107,780 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $156,570 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Industrial Production Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $99,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $153,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $214,960 |
| This salary | $153,000 |
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 | $106,975 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $115,842 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,430 |
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 | $140,027 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$16,250 |
| 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 $153,000. The published range is $99,770 up to $214,960, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $106,975 take-home in Delaware comes from $153,000. 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 17 of 445.
- Two cautions on $107,780, the adjusted value of that $153,000 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 17 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for industrial production managers in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $99,770 to $214,960. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $106,975, from $153,000, 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 17 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 50 for it.
- This $107,780 adjusted figure, worked from $153,000, 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 17 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 17 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $99,770 and the top tenth $214,960 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $107,780 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, $106,975 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($99,770) and the ninetieth ($214,960) 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 $107,780 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 $106,975 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.