Postal Service Mail Carriers Salary in Dover, DE

Postal Service Mail Carriers pay range in Dover

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $42,390 a year or less, while the top 10% make $81,040 or more. The middle half of postal service mail carriers in Dover earn between $42,390 and $79,040.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Postal Service Mail Carriers salary after taxes in Dover

On the average salary of $59,670, a single filer in Dover takes home about $47,380 a year, or $3,948 a month and $1,822 every two weeks. Taxes take 21% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

Is Dover a good place for postal service mail carriers? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Dover area are 2% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 97.5), so the average $59,670 buys what about $61,196 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.2 times the median wage of all jobs in Dover ($46,690). A typical home costs $372,156, or 6.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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Bozeman, MT pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($69,930).

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Related jobs in Dover

• Postal Service Clerks$63,630 a year
• Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks$59,540 a year
• Public Safety Telecommunicators$56,670 a year
• Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance$49,930 a year
• Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks$42,500 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$69,370 a year
• Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants$67,670 a year
• Information and Record Clerks, All Other$56,280 a year

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