Nurse Practitioners in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$93,414
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$37,626
28.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$94,117
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
$131,040
Kept after tax
$93,414
Worth in national money
$94,117
State rank
28
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays nurse practitioners around $131,040 at the midpoint, 28 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 445 occupations Delaware reports, nurse practitioners comes in at 35 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $131,040, tax leaves $93,414, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $94,117 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $132,900, since top earners drag the number up.
- For nurse practitioners the Delaware median is $131,040, ranking 28 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Nurse practitioners ranks 35 of 445 occupations by median in Delaware, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for nurse practitioners — median $131,040 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $93,414 retained, $94,117 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $132,900 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Nurse Practitioners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $97,450 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $131,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $162,870 |
| This salary | $131,040 |
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 | $93,414 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $100,832 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,646 |
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 | $120,233 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,587 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $131,040 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $97,450 and the ninetieth is $162,870 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $93,414 take-home in Delaware comes from $131,040. 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 35 of 445.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $94,117 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 35.
- The Delaware median of $131,040 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $97,450 to $162,870. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $93,414, from $131,040, 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 35 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 28 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $94,117, worked from $131,040, 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 35 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $97,450 at the tenth percentile, $162,870 at the ninetieth.
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 $94,117 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, $93,414 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($97,450 to $162,870) 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 $94,117 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 $93,414 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.