Dover, DE Salaries

Compiled by WageDex · August 10, 2026

Highest published occupation medians in Dover, DE - BLS OEWS May 2025

BLS's published All Occupations median in Dover, DE moved from $45,190 in May 2024 to $46,690 in May 2025 (+3.3%).
Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
Dover, DE sits +0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Wage Scorecard

37/100

Dover, DE

Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.

Wage Level F

$46,690

All-occupation median annual wage (BLS OEWS)

Wage Growth C-

+3.3%

Year-over-year change in median wage (BLS OEWS)

Real Purchasing Power F

$47,884

Median wage adjusted for regional price parity (RPP 97.5, BEA)

Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Dover, DE

Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $32,130 here versus $35,800 nationally (-10.3%; 2,070metro-area jobs). Next is Cashiers at $31,720 locally versus $32,880 nationally (-3.5%).

Home Health and Personal Care Aides$32,130 in Dover, DE sits 10.3% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,070 published local jobs).
Cashiers$31,720 in Dover, DE sits 3.5% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,010 published local jobs).
Fast Food and Counter Workers$31,200 in Dover, DE sits 0.0% above the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (2,090 published local jobs).

Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Dover, DE; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 20100 · Dover, DE $58K mean

MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

MEAN-LOW #270/528
RPP-MID 97.5
OCC-MID 255 occs
TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $234K
EMP-MIX General and…
TREND-INLINE +0.2 pp
PHOTO-FINISH Arizona nonmetro…
BOOK-MOST 250 rows · May 2025

Read with Arizona nonmetropolitan area (+$18 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers

Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.

Read the chart as text

Label	Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean	$32K
Visalia, CA · near	$57K
Dover, DE · this MSA	$58K
Arizona nonmetropoli… · near	$58K
South Illinois nonme… · near	$58K
Prescott Valley-Pres… · near	$58K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean	$119K

Employment scale inside Dover, DE's top-pay list

General and Operations Managers and Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary lead published employment inside Dover, DE's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

1. General and Operations Managers 650 jobs · $119,990
2. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 290 jobs · $127,650
3. Software Developers 250 jobs · $107,530
4. Medical and Health Services Managers 230 jobs · $114,610
5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 200 jobs · $169,420
6. Nurse Practitioners 190 jobs · $122,930
7. Financial Managers 170 jobs · $159,540
8. Family Medicine Physicians 130 jobs · $233,980
9. Sales Managers 110 jobs · $178,130
10. Managers, All Other 110 jobs · $147,500
11. Project Management Specialists 100 jobs · $109,940
12. Pharmacists 90 jobs · $151,930
13. Architectural and Engineering Managers 70 jobs · $159,330
14. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 70 jobs · $113,470
15. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $129,190
16. Electrical Engineers 60 jobs · $122,410
17. Marketing Managers 50 jobs · $182,640
18. Industrial Production Managers 50 jobs · $127,720

Occupations Tracked

255

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$57,626

employment-weighted, 250 complete rows

Top Salary

$233,980

Family Medicine Physicians

Cost of Living

97.5

2% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $57,626 by the metro RPP gives $59,099 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Dover, DE

#	Occupation	Median Salary	Mean Salary	Employment
1	Family Medicine Physicians	$233,980	$232,160	130
2	Marketing Managers	$182,640	$177,170	50
3	Sales Managers	$178,130	$174,310	110
4	Computer and Information Systems Managers	$169,420	$198,480	200
5	Optometrists	$165,660	$155,270	30
6	Financial Managers	$159,540	$183,440	170
7	Architectural and Engineering Managers	$159,330	$167,340	70
8	Pharmacists	$151,930	$148,290	90
9	Managers, All Other	$147,500	$146,660	110
10	Physician Assistants	$129,190	$138,410	60
11	Industrial Production Managers	$127,720	$130,230	50
12	Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary	$127,650	$128,130	290
13	Financial Risk Specialists	$122,930	$116,010	40
14	Nurse Practitioners	$122,930	$127,710	190
15	Electrical Engineers	$122,410	$114,610	60
16	General and Operations Managers	$119,990	$130,910	650
17	Administrative Services Managers	$118,620	$121,510	50
18	Construction Managers	$115,810	$123,140	50
19	Natural Sciences Managers	$114,800	$131,250	50
20	Medical and Health Services Managers	$114,610	$139,360	230
21	Education Administrators, Postsecondary	$113,470	$121,210	70
22	Clinical and Counseling Psychologists	$111,300	$100,330	30
23	Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers	$111,270	$110,410	30
24	Project Management Specialists	$109,940	$106,800	100
25	Software Developers	$107,530	$121,730	250

Lowest Paying Jobs in Dover, DE

Occupation	Median Salary	Employment
Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other	$31,200	50
Driver/Sales Workers	$31,200	150
Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks	$31,200	140
Childcare Workers	$31,200	90
Manicurists and Pedicurists	$31,200	70
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists	$31,200	170
Amusement and Recreation Attendants	$31,200	150
Animal Caretakers	$31,200	240
Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other	$31,200	N/A
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop	$31,200	180

Other BLS Wage Areas in DE

Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.

Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area

DE · nonmetropolitan area

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Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale

Two OEWS peer sets outside DE. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($57,626 here) and summed published employment.

Similar mean wage

Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.

Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Dover, DE? ▼

Across the 250 occupation rows for Dover, DE with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $57,626/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 255 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $137,532, which describes the displayed top tier only.

Which published medians lead Dover, DE? ▼

Family Medicine Physicians holds the highest published median in Dover, DE at $233,980/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Marketing Managers at $182,640/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.

What is the cost of living in Dover, DE? ▼

Dover, DE has a Regional Price Parity of 97.5, meaning prices are 2% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $57,626 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $59,099.

Where does BLS salary data for Dover, DE come from? ▼

All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area, not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Related federal data

BLS OEWS, metro wage tables → BEA Regional Price Parities →

What to do with this data

How to use Dover, DE wage figures in a real decision

Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Dover, DE at $233,980/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
The employment-weighted published-row mean of $57,626 adjusts to about $59,099 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 97.5. Salary vs cost of living
Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for DE before treating one geography as the other. State wage page

BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.

Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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