Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$72,954
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$18,196
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$71,724
Alaska costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alaska — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$91,150
Kept after tax
$72,954
Worth in national money
$71,724
State rank
8
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $91,150, which ranks 8 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 14.12% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 108 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $91,150, tax leaves $72,954, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $71,724 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $89,990.
- Alaska ranks 8 of 50 states publishing a median for aircraft mechanics and service technicians, at $91,150 — about 14.12% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Aircraft mechanics and service technicians ranks 108 of 430 occupations in Alaska by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for aircraft mechanics and service technicians — median $91,150 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $72,954 retained, $71,724 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $89,990 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $54,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $91,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $122,880 |
| This salary | $91,150 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Alaska | $72,954 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $72,954 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,351 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $91,150 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,629 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Alaska earn less than $91,150. The published range is $54,530 up to $122,880, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $72,954, worked from $91,150. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 108 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $71,724 uses one figure for the whole of Alaska. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 430 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 108.
- Reported values are medians; for aircraft mechanics and service technicians in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $54,530 to $122,880. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $72,954, on $91,150 for work ranking 108 of 430 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 108 of 430 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $71,724, worked from $91,150, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Alaska address, on work sitting at 108 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $54,530, the highest tenth $122,880, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Alaska costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $71,724 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $72,954 of this wage reaches your account, because Alaska takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($54,530) and the ninetieth ($122,880) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Alaska's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $71,724 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Alaska levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $72,954 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.