Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,890
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$23,960
25.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,416
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
$93,850
Kept after tax
$69,890
Worth in national money
$70,416
State rank
9
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Delaware's middle earner gets $93,850, putting the state 9 of 51 — about 26.26% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 445 occupations Delaware reports, this job comes in at 99 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- No great distortion either way. Delaware costs about what the country costs, so from $93,850, take-home of $69,890 is worth roughly $70,416 in national money. The average lands at $79,780, below the middle of the range.
- For telecommunications line installers and repairers, Delaware sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $93,850, ranking 9 of 51 and running about 26.26% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Telecommunications line installers and repairers ranks 99 of 445 occupations by median in Delaware, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Price parity in Delaware is near the national base, so for telecommunications line installers and repairers, whose median is $93,850, the adjusted figure of $70,416 differs little from $69,890 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $79,780 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $93,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,580 |
| This salary | $93,850 |
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 | $69,890 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $74,853 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,613 |
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 | $86,795 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,135 |
| 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 $93,850. The published range is $38,370 up to $98,580, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Delaware the take-home figure of $69,890, from $93,850, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 99 of 445 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $70,416, the adjusted value of that $93,850 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 99 of 445 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for telecommunications line installers and repairers in Delaware the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,370 to $98,580. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Delaware is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $69,890 from $93,850. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 99 of 445 locally.
- This $70,416 adjusted figure, worked from $93,850, 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 99 of 445 in the state. The occupation ranks 99 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $79,780 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $38,370 and the top tenth $98,580, so most people doing this work in Delaware sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $70,416 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, $69,890 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $79,780. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($38,370 to $98,580) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Delaware rather than a national figure.
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 $70,416 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 $69,890 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.