Occupational Health and Safety Technicians in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,355
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$12,955
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,726
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
$62,310
Kept after tax
$49,355
Worth in national money
$49,726
State rank
25
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays this job around $62,310 at the midpoint, 25 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 206 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 $62,310, tax leaves $49,355, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $49,726 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $69,660, since top earners drag the number up.
- For occupational health and safety technicians the Delaware median is $62,310, ranking 25 of 48 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.
- Occupational health and safety technicians ranks 206 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 occupational health and safety technicians — median $62,310 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $49,355 retained, $49,726 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $69,660 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,380 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,000 |
| This salary | $62,310 |
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 | $49,355 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,246 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,039 |
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 | $58,712 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,884 |
| 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 $62,310. The published range is $47,380 up to $99,000, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Delaware's $49,355, worked from $62,310. 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 206 of 445.
- Two cautions on $49,726, the adjusted value of that $62,310 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 206 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for occupational health and safety technicians in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,380 to $99,000. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Delaware take-home of $49,355, on $62,310 for work ranking 206 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 206 of 445 in the state.
- This $49,726 adjusted figure, worked from $62,310, 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 206 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 206 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 $69,660, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $47,380, the highest tenth $99,000, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $49,726 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $49,355.
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 $69,660. 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 ($47,380) and the ninetieth ($99,000) 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 $49,726 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 $49,355 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.