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Salary data from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics

Average Engineers, All Other Salary in Delaware

Engineers, All Other in Delaware earn a median annual salary of $85,530, which is -27.4% compared to the national median. There are 130 workers employed locally in this occupation.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2024 estimates for Delaware (state).

$85,530
Delaware median annual wage
$41/hour median
-27.4%
Difference vs national median
National median is $117,750
130
Local employment
0.3 jobs per 1,000 workers
0.29
Location quotient
Above 1.00 means the occupation is more concentrated here than nationally

Pay distribution

Local wage range

10th
$68,390
25th
$80,020
Median
$85,530
75th
$121,950
90th
$158,150

All values are percentiles of annual wages.

This local range is the useful part of the page. The median tells you the center of the market in Delaware, while the percentile band shows how compressed or wide the local pay distribution actually is.

Regional price parity

Cost-of-living context

All-items regional price parity
99.8%
Exact state RPP match
Median wage adjusted to the national price level
$85,695
Goods: 96.2%
Services: 103.8%
Rents: 102.0%

Comparison links

Comparable states for this occupation

StateMedian annual wageCompareEmployment
District of Columbia$167,270Compare2,640
Alabama$146,480Compare3,370
New Mexico$142,520Compare1,720
Virginia$142,110Compare5,980
Wyoming$139,010Compare190
Maryland$135,990Compare6,670

The point of this table is not random nearby places. It is to show the other labor markets where this same occupation looks stronger or weaker on the same OEWS release.

Area context

Top occupations in Delaware

OccupationMedian annual wageLQ
Nurse Anesthetists$236,8000.47
Psychiatrists$236,7401.10
Family Medicine Physicians$235,9601.91
Physicians, All Other$232,1801.13
Dentists, General$224,6901.02
Pediatricians, General$211,3401.87
Sales Managers$201,0900.57
Chief Executives$190,4600.68

Delaware has salary data for 547 occupations. The highest-paid occupation in this area is Nurse Anesthetists.

Historical series

Trend for Engineers, All Other in Delaware

Historical trend data is not yet available for this occupation in this area.

Interpretation

Outlook and page notes

Nationally, Engineers, All Other are projected to change by +2.1% from 2024 to 2034, with 9,300 annual openings.

Use this page to answer three separate questions: what the occupation pays here, how large the local market is, and whether this market is unusually concentrated for the occupation.

For metro pages in particular, read long-term trend rows as directional until the area comparability layer is fully wired. OEWS area definitions can change over time, and that matters more at the metro level than at the state level.