Social and Community Service Managers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,479
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$17,471
23.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,919
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
$75,950
Kept after tax
$58,479
Worth in national money
$58,919
State rank
34
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Delaware is 34 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $75,950. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Delaware, this sits in the middle: 146 of 445 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Delaware costs about what the country costs, so from $75,950, take-home of $58,479 is worth roughly $58,919 in national money. The average comes to $80,910, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Delaware ranks 34 of 51 for social and community service managers at $75,950. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Social and community service managers ranks 146 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.
- Price parity in Delaware is near the national base, so for social and community service managers, whose median is $75,950, the adjusted figure of $58,919 differs little from $58,479 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $80,910 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Social and Community Service Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $113,700 |
| This salary | $75,950 |
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 | $58,479 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,261 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,152 |
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 | $70,574 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,116 |
| 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 social and community service managers in Delaware earn under $75,950 and half over. The published range runs $56,870 at the tenth percentile to $113,700 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $58,479 take-home in Delaware comes from $75,950. 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 146 of 445.
- Two cautions on $58,919, the adjusted value of that $75,950 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 146 of 445 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for social and community service managers in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $56,870 to $113,700; 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 $58,479, from $75,950, 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 146 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 51 for it.
- This $58,919 adjusted figure, worked from $75,950, 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 146 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 146 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 $80,910, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $56,870, the highest tenth $113,700, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $58,919.
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 $58,479 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $80,910. 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 ($56,870) and the ninetieth ($113,700) 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 $58,919 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 $58,479 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.