Aircraft Service Attendants in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,752
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$7,008
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,081
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
$46,760
Kept after tax
$39,752
Worth in national money
$39,081
State rank
8
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for aircraft service attendants is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $46,760, putting the state 8 of 46 — about 15.6% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Alaska this is lower-paid work. Of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, aircraft service attendants ranks 347. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $46,760 the take-home is $39,752, which is worth about $39,081 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $50,080, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For aircraft service attendants, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $46,760, ranking 8 of 46 and running about 15.6% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Against every occupation Alaska reports, aircraft service attendants ranks 347 of 430, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for aircraft service attendants on its $46,760 median: $39,752 retained after tax becomes $39,081 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $50,080 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Aircraft Service Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,740 |
| This salary | $46,760 |
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 | $39,752 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,752 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,826 |
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 | $46,760 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,208 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of aircraft service attendants in Alaska earn under $46,760 and half over. The published range runs $41,920 at the tenth percentile to $60,740 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $39,752, worked from $46,760. 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 347 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $39,081 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 347.
- Figures are distribution medians for aircraft service attendants in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,920 to $60,740; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Alaska take-home of $39,752, on $46,760 for work ranking 347 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 347 of 430 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $39,081, worked from $46,760, 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 347 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $50,080, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $41,920 at the bottom tenth to $60,740 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $39,081 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $39,752 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Alaska is $50,080. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($41,920 to $60,740) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Alaska rather than a national figure.
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 $39,081 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 $39,752 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.