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Delaware take-home pay calculator

What Delaware withholds on top of federal tax, and what reaches your account.

How Delaware taxes wages

Delaware taxes wage income on a bracket schedule. Only the income inside a bracket pays that bracket’s rate.

Delaware income tax rates for 2026. Rates shown are for a single filer.
FromUp toRate
$0$2,0000.00%
$2,000$5,0002.20%
$5,000$10,0003.90%
$10,000$20,0004.80%
$20,000$25,0005.20%
$25,000$60,0005.55%
$60,000and above6.60%

How Delaware treats pre-tax deductions

HSA contributions
Pre-tax, as federally
Traditional 401(k) contributions
Pre-tax, as federally

What else Delaware withholds

ProgrammeRateWage cap
Paid leave0.40%$184,500

Local income taxes in Delaware

These are levied by a city, county or district on top of the Delaware tax. Pick yours in the calculator to include it in the result.

PlaceRate
Wilmington1.25% of wages

What this calculator models for Delaware

Every figure above comes from a published Delaware document. These are the rules behind those figures that this calculator applies, approximates, or leaves out.

RuleIn this calculator
A programme in Delaware applies at different rates depending on the size of your employer, and this calculator carries one of those tiers. Being on a different tier changes the deduction by up to $443 a year.Not modelled

Sources

Every Delaware figure on this page is transcribed from the document it links to below, last checked .

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