Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,036
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$19,494
23.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,503
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
$81,530
Kept after tax
$62,036
Worth in national money
$62,503
State rank
1
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $81,530, putting the state 1 of 48 — about 48.21% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 445 occupations Delaware reports figures for, this is number 123.
- No great distortion either way. Delaware costs about what the country costs, so from $81,530, take-home of $62,036 is worth roughly $62,503 in national money. The average comes to $84,160, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $81,530, ranking 1 of 48 and running about 48.21% 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.
- In Delaware's occupational distribution, morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers sits at 123 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.
- Price parity in Delaware is near the national base, so for morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers, whose median is $81,530, the adjusted figure of $62,503 differs little from $62,036 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $84,160 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,530 |
| Top tenth earn over | $123,700 |
| This salary | $81,530 |
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 | $62,036 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,186 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,607 |
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 | $75,631 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,745 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $81,530 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $59,240 and the ninetieth is $123,700 — 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 $62,036, worked from $81,530. 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 123 of 445.
- Two cautions on $62,503, the adjusted value of that $81,530 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 123 of 445 locally.
- The Delaware median of $81,530 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $59,240 to $123,700. 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 $62,036, on $81,530 for work ranking 123 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 123 of 445 in the state.
- This $62,503 adjusted figure, worked from $81,530, 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 123 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 123 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 $84,160, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $59,240 at the bottom tenth to $123,700 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $62,503 in national terms.
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 $62,036.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $84,160. 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 ($59,240) and the ninetieth ($123,700) 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 $62,503 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 $62,036 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.