How much is Delaware state income tax?

It is graduated. Nothing is charged on the first $2,000 of taxable income, and the bands then run from 2.2% to 6.6%. On $75,000 the marginal rate is 6.6% and the effective rate 4.96%, because the lower bands are filled first.

What is take-home pay on $75,000 in Delaware?

Delaware takes about $3,719 a year at that salary — 4.96% of gross — before federal tax and FICA. Enter your own figure above for the per-paycheck answer.

Does Delaware have local income taxes?

Wilmington charges a 1.25% city wage tax on residents and on anyone who works in the city. It is not included here.

Is Delaware a high-tax state overall?

On income, Delaware takes 4.96% of a $75,000 salary. But the whole burden is three taxes: sales tax here is 0% combined, 47th of fifty, and property tax 0.54%, 39th of fifty. Both are among the lightest in the country, which is unusual.

Is this the same as what my employer withholds?

Close, not identical. Withholding follows the W-4 you filed and your state’s equivalent form, which can carry allowances, extra withholding or a second job adjustment this page does not know about. The annual tax is what settles on your return; withholding is an instalment against it.

Delaware paycheck calculator

On a $75,000 salary paid twice a month, a Delaware paycheck is $2,411 after tax — $57,873 a year, single, with no 401(k) and no health premium. $155 of each cheque is Delaware income tax, charged at its 7 graduated bands for 2026. Local taxes are named below rather than silently omitted.

Delaware rates for 2026 and federal withholding checked against their published tables 2 September 2026 · How we check

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Take-home pay in Delaware

$1,974.94

$117.65 of that is Delaware income tax, on top of $216.15 of federal withholding and $191.25 of FICA.

Gross: $2,500.00
Federal income tax: $216.15
Social security: $155.00
Medicare: $36.25
Delaware income tax: $117.65
Take-home: $1,974.94
Annualised gross: $65,000.00
Delaware tax a year: $3,059.00

Delaware takes 4.71% of the gross overall, with the next dollar at 6.6% — the effective rate is lower because the lower bands are filled first.

Delaware income tax for 2026

Delaware income tax brackets
Rate	Taxable income up to (single)
0%	$2,000
2.2%	$5,000
3.9%	$10,000
4.8%	$20,000
5.2%	$25,000
5.55%	$60,000
6.6%	no ceiling

$75,000 in Delaware, paid twice a month

Single, no dependants, no 401(k) and no pre-tax health premium — so every line below is tax rather than a benefit election. The gross cheque is $3,125.00.

A $75,000 salary in Delaware, line by line, paid twice a month
Federal income tax	−$319.58
Social security (6.2%)	−$193.75
Medicare (1.45%)	−$45.31
Delaware income tax	−$154.96
Take-home each cheque	$2,411.40

That is $57,873 a year, 77.2% of gross. Delaware took $3,719 of it — the difference between this state and a no-income-tax state at the same salary.

The form that sets your state withholding

There is none. With no state income tax there is nothing to elect, and your federal W-4 is the only withholding form a Delaware employer needs from you.

What Delaware charges as well

Income tax is one of three. The other two do not come out of a paycheck, but they decide what the paycheck buys.

Sales and property tax in Delaware
Sales tax, state plus average local	0%	47th of fifty
Property tax on median home value	0.54%	39th of fifty

Delaware levies no state sales tax at all. Property tax is among the lightest at 0.54% — about $2,160 a year on a $400,000 home. Work yours out on the property tax calculator.

Withholding is an instalment, not the bill. What the year actually settles at is on the refund calculator, and the dates it settles on are the federal tax deadlines.

What this does not include

Delaware taxes nothing on the first $2,000 and reaches its top 6.6% rate at $60,000, which is low enough that most full-time workers are in the top band.
Wilmington charges a 1.25% city wage tax on residents and on anyone who works in the city. It is not included here.

Questions people actually ask

How much is Delaware state income tax?: It is graduated. Nothing is charged on the first $2,000 of taxable income, and the bands then run from 2.2% to 6.6%. On $75,000 the marginal rate is 6.6% and the effective rate 4.96%, because the lower bands are filled first.
What is take-home pay on $75,000 in Delaware?: Delaware takes about $3,719 a year at that salary — 4.96% of gross — before federal tax and FICA. Enter your own figure above for the per-paycheck answer.
Does Delaware have local income taxes?: Wilmington charges a 1.25% city wage tax on residents and on anyone who works in the city. It is not included here.
Is Delaware a high-tax state overall?: On income, Delaware takes 4.96% of a $75,000 salary. But the whole burden is three taxes: sales tax here is 0% combined, 47th of fifty, and property tax 0.54%, 39th of fifty. Both are among the lightest in the country, which is unusual.
Is this the same as what my employer withholds?: Close, not identical. Withholding follows the W-4 you filed and your state’s equivalent form, which can carry allowances, extra withholding or a second job adjustment this page does not know about. The annual tax is what settles on your return; withholding is an instalment against it.

The same paycheck next door

State income tax follows where you live, not where you work, so a move across one of these lines changes the figure above without changing the job. Rates on the same $75,000.

Maryland$3,199 New Jersey$2,598 Pennsylvania$2,303

Where the state line is nothing

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