Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$102,035
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$42,966
29.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$102,802
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
$145,000
Kept after tax
$102,035
Worth in national money
$102,802
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Delaware pays this job a middle wage of $145,000, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 35.22% above the national middle.
- Within Delaware this is well-paid work. Of 445 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 21 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $145,000, tax leaves $102,035, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $102,802 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $153,200, since top earners drag the number up.
- Delaware's median for transportation, storage, and distribution managers is $145,000, about 35.22% above the national figure and 1 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Delaware publishes a median for, transportation, storage, and distribution managers sits 21 of 445 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for transportation, storage, and distribution managers — median $145,000 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $102,035 retained, $102,802 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $153,200 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $101,250 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $145,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $210,080 |
| This salary | $145,000 |
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 | $102,035 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $110,374 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,780 |
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 | $132,800 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,326 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $145,000 as a midpoint for Delaware, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $101,250 and the ninetieth is $210,080 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $102,035 take-home in Delaware comes from $145,000. 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 21 of 445.
- One number stands for prices across all of Delaware, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $102,802, the adjusted value of that $145,000 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 21 of 445 in the state.
- The Delaware median of $145,000 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $101,250 to $210,080. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $102,035, from $145,000, 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 21 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Delaware, so $102,802 — the adjusted value of that $145,000 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 21 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 $153,200 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $101,250 and the top tenth $210,080 — 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 $102,802 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Delaware then takes its own share, leaving $102,035.
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 $153,200. 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 ($101,250) and the ninetieth ($210,080) 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 $102,802 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 $102,035 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.