Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,139
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$9,851
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,441
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
$49,990
Kept after tax
$40,139
Worth in national money
$40,441
State rank
14
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Delaware pays this job a middle wage of $49,990, ranking 14 of 49 states and sitting about 1.54% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 289 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 $49,990, tax leaves $40,139, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $40,441 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $51,720, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware's median for insurance claims and policy processing clerks is $49,990, about 1.54% above the national figure and 14 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Insurance claims and policy processing clerks ranks 289 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 insurance claims and policy processing clerks — median $49,990 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $40,139 retained, $40,441 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $51,720 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,280 |
| This salary | $49,990 |
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 | $40,139 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,347 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,137 |
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 | $47,243 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,793 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,990 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,180 and the ninetieth is $63,280 — 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 $40,139, worked from $49,990. 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 289 of 445.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $40,441 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 289.
- The Delaware median of $49,990 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,180 to $63,280. 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 $40,139, on $49,990 for work ranking 289 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 289 of 445 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $40,441, worked from $49,990, 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 289 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $51,720, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $40,180 at the tenth percentile, $63,280 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 $40,441 in national terms.
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 $40,139 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $51,720. 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 ($40,180 to $63,280) 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 $40,441 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 $40,139 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.