Updated August 7, 2026. Quick answer: every figure Clear Money Guide holds about Delaware, on one page, each one copied from a dataset that cites its own statute or agency. Built for reporters on deadline — take any line, follow the link for the source.
What stands out about Delaware
These are the figures where Delaware differs most from the rest of the country — selected by counting how many jurisdictions share each value, not by editorial preference.
- Return deadline: 20 days after expiration or termination of the rental agreement — the only jurisdiction of the 51 we have data for
- Disclosure trigger: none as of 2026-08-06; becomes ‘in the job posting’ on 2027-09-26 — the only jurisdiction of the 51 we have data for
- Formation fee: $110 (agency schedule); $70 (fee statute) — the only jurisdiction of the 48 we have data for
- Trigger: the premium due date specified in the policy — one of only 4 of 47
What dying costs here
- Small estate limit: 30000
- Small estate scope: personal_only
Source and full detail: the cost-of-dying index. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Estate and property law status
- Authorized: yes
- Statute or act: 29 Del. C. 4320 (RULONA, Subch. II, Title 29 Ch. 43)
- Effective date: 2023-08-01
- Conditions: Communication technology enabling real-time simultaneous sight-and-sound; audio-visual recording of the act and the identity-verification steps required. Per 4340 the subchapter ‘applies to a notarial act performed on or after August 1, 2023.’
- Association name: Delaware Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
- Death benefit limit: $300,000
- Cash surrender limit: $100,000
- Annuity limit: $250,000
- Aggregate limit: $300,000
- Statute citation: 18 Del. C. § 4403(c) (Coverage and limitations)
- Grace period days: 30 days, or at the insurer’s option 1 month of not less than 30 days; 4 weeks for industrial life insurance policies whose premiums are payable more frequently than monthly
- Trigger: the premium due date specified in the policy
- Coverage during grace: The policy continues in full force. The insurer may impose an interest charge not exceeding 6% per annum for the days of grace elapsing before payment of the premium; and whether or not that interest is charged, if a claim arises during grace, the amount of any premium due or overdue, together wi…
- Variations: 4 weeks for industrial life insurance policies whose premiums are payable more frequently than monthly; annuity and pure endowment contracts have a separate grace section at 18 Del. C. Sec. 2919
Source and full detail: notary rules by state · guaranty association limits · life insurance free-look periods · life insurance grace periods. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Working and earning here
- Quit deadline: The later of the next regular payday (as if employment had not stopped) or 3 business days after the last day worked
- Fired deadline: Same as quitting – the later of the next regular payday or 3 business days after the last day worked
- Statute citation: 19 Del. C. 1103
- Has law: No
- Disclosure trigger: none as of 2026-08-06; becomes ‘in the job posting’ on 2027-09-26
- Employer threshold: 26+ employees (from 2027-09-26); no duty at all before that date
- Covers remote roles: yes (from 2027-09-26)
- Effective date: 2027-09-26
- Salary history ban: yes
- Local ordinances: none identified
- Wage replacement: 80% of average weekly wages over the preceding 12 months, minimum $100 per week, maximum $900 per week in 2026 and 2027
- Max weeks family: parental leave 12 weeks per application year; family caregiving 6 weeks, but aggregated with medical leave and measured over 24 months, not 12
- Max weeks medical: 6 weeks in any 24-month period, aggregated with family caregiving leave
- Funding: both – total 0.8% of wages for 2025 and 2026 (medical 0.4%, parental 0.32%, family caregiving 0.08%); the employer may deduct no more than 50% of the contribution from the employee and may elect to pay all of it
- Benefits effective date: 2026-01-01
- Mandatory: mandatory above the size thresholds, voluntary opt-in below them
- Test: necessity-of-the-employer formulation: a nonresident’s compensation is Delaware-source if for personal services ‘Rendered in this State, or Attributable to employment in this State and not required to be performed elsewhere’
- Authority: statute
- Contested: no
Source and full detail: final paycheck laws by state · pay transparency laws by state · paid family leave by state · the convenience-of-the-employer rule. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Renting here
- Deposit cap: 1 month’s rent for unfurnished units on a lease of 1 year or more, or a month-to-month/undefined-term tenancy lasting 1 year or more
- Return deadline: 20 days after expiration or termination of the rental agreement
- Interest required: no
- Statute citation: 25 Del. C. 5514
Source and full detail: security deposit law by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Starting a business here
- Formation fee: $110 (agency schedule); $70 (fee statute)
- Annual report: none — Delaware LLCs file no annual report
- Franchise tax: $400 annual LLC tax
- Publication requirement: none
- Expedite options: 24-hour $50; same day $100; Priority 2 (2-hour) $500; Priority 1 (1-hour) $1,000
- Statute citation: 6 Del. C. 18-1105 (fees); 6 Del. C. 18-1107 (annual tax)
- Five year total: $2,110
Source and full detail: LLC cost by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
Tax treatment here
- Has law: Yes
- Treatment: ordinary income
- Rate: top marginal 6.60%
- Preferential mechanism: none
- Tax year: 2026
- Statute citation: 30 Del. C. § 1102(a)(14)
Source and full detail: capital gains tax by state. Figures copied from those pages, which own them.
For journalists: how to cite this
Clear Money Guide, Delaware Money Statistics 2026. https://clearmoneyguide.com/state-money-statistics/delaware/. Every figure on this page is copied from a Clear Money Guide dataset that states its own primary source and the date it was read — follow the section links for the statute or agency behind any number. Free to reuse with attribution under CC BY 4.0.
What this sheet does and does not contain
This sheet aggregates; it does not research. Every figure is copied from the owning page linked in each section, and a figure we do not own is simply absent — not estimated, not inferred from a neighbouring state. That is why sheets differ in length: this one states 52 figures, and a state where we hold less will show fewer. A short sheet means we have less, not that the state has less.
Statutory law changes. Each linked owner page carries the date its figures were read; check there before relying on anything here. See also Delaware financial adviser statistics and all 51 state money sheets.
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