Surveyors in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,903
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$19,987
24.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,377
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
$82,890
Kept after tax
$62,903
Worth in national money
$63,377
State rank
9
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Delaware is one of the better-paying states for surveyors. The middle earner takes $82,890, which ranks 9 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 9.88% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 445 occupations Delaware reports figures for, this is number 120.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $82,890, tax leaves $62,903, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,377 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $89,340, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware ranks 9 of 50 states publishing a median for surveyors, at $82,890 — about 9.88% 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.
- In Delaware's occupational distribution, surveyors sits at 120 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 surveyors — median $82,890 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $62,903 retained, $63,377 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $89,340 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Surveyors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $82,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $126,600 |
| This salary | $82,890 |
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 | $62,903 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,143 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,718 |
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 | $76,863 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,899 |
| 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 $82,890. The published range is $63,200 up to $126,600, 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 $62,903, worked from $82,890. 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 120 of 445.
- Two cautions on $63,377, the adjusted value of that $82,890 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 120 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for surveyors in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $63,200 to $126,600. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Delaware take-home of $62,903, on $82,890 for work ranking 120 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 120 of 445 in the state.
- This $63,377 adjusted figure, worked from $82,890, 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 120 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 120 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 $89,340, 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $63,200 at the bottom tenth to $126,600 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $63,377.
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 $62,903 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 50 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 $89,340. 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 ($63,200) and the ninetieth ($126,600) 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 $63,377 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 $62,903 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.