Producers and Directors in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,375
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$16,275
22.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,800
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
$72,650
Kept after tax
$56,375
Worth in national money
$56,800
State rank
20
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays producers and directors around $72,650 at the midpoint, 20 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 445 occupations Delaware reports figures for, this is number 162.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $72,650, tax leaves $56,375, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $56,800 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $110,780, since top earners drag the number up.
- For producers and directors the Delaware median is $72,650, ranking 20 of 50 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.
- In Delaware's occupational distribution, producers and directors sits at 162 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.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for producers and directors — median $72,650 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $56,375 retained, $56,800 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $110,780 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Producers and Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $238,670 |
| This salary | $72,650 |
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 | $56,375 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,939 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,882 |
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 | $67,584 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,670 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $72,650 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,420 and the ninetieth is $238,670 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $56,375 take-home in Delaware comes from $72,650. 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 162 of 445.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,800 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 162.
- The Delaware median of $72,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,420 to $238,670. 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 $56,375, from $72,650, 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 162 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,800, worked from $72,650, 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 162 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 $110,780, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $50,420 at the bottom tenth to $238,670 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $56,800 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, $56,375 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 50 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 $110,780. 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 ($50,420) and the ninetieth ($238,670) 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 $56,800 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 $56,375 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.