Delaware State Pay Schedules
Grade-and-step salary schedules for Delaware state civil-service employees, sourced from the state's own HR publications and shown with their effective dates.
Delaware publishes its pay tables around a midpoint rather than as a ladder of steps. Each pay grade lists three figures — 80%, 100% and 120% of midpoint — so the band for a grade runs from the 80% figure up to the 120% one, with 100% sitting in the middle. The loaded tables carry 24 grades and take effect July 12, 2026.
Two tables are loaded, and the difference between them is the standard work week: one for a 37.5-hour week and one for a 40-hour week. The same grade pays differently between them, so the hours a position works decides which table applies before the grade does.
Reading a midpoint band
The 100% column is the reference point the other two are derived from, not a separate rate a job is paid. Treat the 80% and 120% figures as the floor and ceiling of the grade, in the same way a minimum and maximum work elsewhere — see why state job postings show a salary range.
There are no step columns here, so the tables do not publish a schedule of movement through a grade. Where a position sits inside its band is governed by the state’s own rules and the hiring agency.
Two work weeks, two tables
Because the annual figures are built from an hourly rate, a 40-hour week produces higher annual numbers than a 37.5-hour week at the identical grade. Comparing a grade across the two tables therefore compares two different working patterns, not two different job levels.
Grades are numbered from 03 upward. What a civil-service pay grade is explains what the label represents once the right table has been chosen.
Effective dates and sources
Delaware organises its tables by fiscal year, keeping prior years published alongside the current set, and the effective date is carried in the address of each set. We load the current set and show its effective date on every table with a link back to the page it came from.
Methodology describes how versions are dated and updated, and data sources lists what sits behind each table. This is an independent reference site with no connection to the State of Delaware or any of its agencies.