News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,336
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$11,264
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,669
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
$55,600
Kept after tax
$44,336
Worth in national money
$44,669
State rank
19
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $55,600, ranking 19 of 48 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 262 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $55,600 the take-home is $44,336, which is worth about $44,669 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $73,160, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Delaware occupies the middle band for news analysts, reporters, and journalists: a median of $55,600, ranking 19 of 48. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 262 of 445 in Delaware places news analysts, reporters, and journalists in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Delaware's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for news analysts, reporters, and journalists on its $55,600 median: $44,336 retained after tax becomes $44,669 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $73,160 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $145,070 |
| This salary | $55,600 |
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 | $44,336 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,855 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,547 |
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 | $52,465 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,290 |
| 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 news analysts, reporters, and journalists in Delaware earn under $55,600 and half over. The published range runs $36,560 at the tenth percentile to $145,070 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $44,336 take-home in Delaware comes from $55,600. 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 262 of 445.
- Two cautions on $44,669, the adjusted value of that $55,600 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 262 of 445 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for news analysts, reporters, and journalists in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,560 to $145,070; 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 $44,336, from $55,600, 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 262 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 48 for it.
- This $44,669 adjusted figure, worked from $55,600, 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 262 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 262 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $73,160, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,560 and the top tenth $145,070 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Delaware sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $44,669 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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, $44,336 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $73,160. 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 ($36,560) and the ninetieth ($145,070) 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 $44,669 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 $44,336 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.