Teachers and Instructors, All Other in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,920
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$14,310
21.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,318
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
$67,230
Kept after tax
$52,920
Worth in national money
$53,318
State rank
17
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays teachers and instructors, all other around $67,230 at the midpoint, 17 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Teachers and instructors, all other ranks 175 among 445 occupations Delaware publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $67,230, tax leaves $52,920, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $53,318 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $70,050, since top earners drag the number up.
- For teachers and instructors, all other the Delaware median is $67,230, ranking 17 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.
- Position 175 of 445 in Delaware places teachers and instructors, all other 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.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for teachers and instructors, all other — median $67,230 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $52,920 retained, $53,318 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $70,050 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Teachers and Instructors, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $67,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,500 |
| This salary | $67,230 |
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 | $52,920 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $56,126 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,440 |
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 | $63,149 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,460 |
| 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 $67,230. The published range is $41,360 up to $102,500, 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 $52,920, worked from $67,230. 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 175 of 445.
- One number stands for prices across all of Delaware, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $53,318, the adjusted value of that $67,230 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 175 of 445 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for teachers and instructors, all other in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $41,360 to $102,500. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Delaware take-home of $52,920, on $67,230 for work ranking 175 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 175 of 445 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Delaware, so $53,318 — the adjusted value of that $67,230 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 175 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 $70,050, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $41,360 and the top tenth $102,500 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $53,318 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 $52,920 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $70,050. 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 ($41,360) and the ninetieth ($102,500) 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 $53,318 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 $52,920 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.