Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,452
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$20,298
24.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,929
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
$83,750
Kept after tax
$63,452
Worth in national money
$63,929
State rank
7
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $83,750, which ranks 7 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 6.47% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 115 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Delaware costs about what the country costs, so from $83,750, take-home of $63,452 is worth roughly $63,929 in national money. The average comes to $105,470, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Delaware ranks 7 of 48 states publishing a median for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents, at $83,750 — about 6.47% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 115 of 445 in Delaware places securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents 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.
- Price parity in Delaware is near the national base, so for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents, whose median is $83,750, the adjusted figure of $63,929 differs little from $63,452 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $105,470 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $184,960 |
| This salary | $83,750 |
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 | $63,452 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,748 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,788 |
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 | $77,643 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,996 |
| 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 securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in Delaware earn under $83,750 and half over. The published range runs $48,420 at the tenth percentile to $184,960 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $63,452 take-home in Delaware comes from $83,750. 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 115 of 445.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $63,929 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 115.
- Figures are distribution medians for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,420 to $184,960; 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 $63,452, from $83,750, 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 115 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $63,929, worked from $83,750, 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 115 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 $105,470, 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $48,420 and the top tenth $184,960 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $63,929 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Delaware adds its own income tax on top — which is why $63,452 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $105,470. 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 ($48,420) and the ninetieth ($184,960) 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 $63,929 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 $63,452 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.