Dover, DE Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Dover, DE - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- 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.
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.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Dover, DE
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
Highest Paying Jobs in Dover, DE
Lowest Paying Jobs in Dover, DE
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other | $31,200 |
| Driver/Sales Workers | $31,200 |
| Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks | $31,200 |
| Childcare Workers | $31,200 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $31,200 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $31,200 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $31,200 |
| Animal Caretakers | $31,200 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $31,200 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $31,200 |
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.
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.
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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.