Web and Digital Interface Designers in Delaware
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,910
after federal, FICA and Delaware tax
Tax takes
$23,971
25.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,436
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
$93,880
Kept after tax
$69,910
Worth in national money
$70,436
State rank
20
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Delaware pays this job around $93,880 at the midpoint, 20 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Delaware. It ranks 98 out of 445 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $93,880, tax leaves $69,910, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $70,436 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $92,270.
- For web and digital interface designers the Delaware median is $93,880, ranking 20 of 46 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.
- Within Delaware, web and digital interface designers ranks 98 of 445 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Because Delaware sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for web and digital interface designers — median $93,880 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $69,910 retained, $70,436 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $92,270 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Web and Digital Interface Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $93,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $136,490 |
| This salary | $93,880 |
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 | $69,910 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $74,875 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,616 |
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 | $86,822 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,138 |
| 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 web and digital interface designers in Delaware earn under $93,880 and half over. The published range runs $50,880 at the tenth percentile to $136,490 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $69,910 take-home in Delaware comes from $93,880. 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 98 of 445.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $70,436 uses one figure for the whole of Delaware. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 445 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 98.
- Figures are distribution medians for web and digital interface designers in Delaware, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $50,880 to $136,490; 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 $69,910, from $93,880, 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 98 of 445 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 46 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $70,436, worked from $93,880, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Delaware address, on work sitting at 98 of 445 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $50,880, the highest tenth $136,490, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $70,436 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 $69,910 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($50,880) and the ninetieth ($136,490) 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 $70,436 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 $69,910 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.